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r8169: deprecate support for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:17:52 +0000 (13:17 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:20:48 +0000 (15:20 -0800)
commitab90563d4f50f619ced10754f4cecb87c49b1c74
tree46bce21d331c982f557da09e099d0057d0e66c7d
parentdc554addfb4c8eecd56c72e730a4c331483b3e46
r8169: deprecate support for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27

RTL8168dp is ancient anyway, and I haven't seen any trace of its early
version 27 yet. This chip versions needs quite some special handling,
therefore it would facilitate driver maintenance if support for it
could be dropped. For now just disable detection of this chip version.
If nobody complains we can remove support for it in the near future.

v2:
- extend unknown chip version error message

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ca98f018-a0e1-8762-e95c-f0ad773a0271@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c