netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: remove TBI 1000BaseX support

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Date:   Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:54:43 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: remove TBI 1000BaseX support

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:07:04 +0200

> The very first version of RTL8169 from 2002 (and only this one) has
> support for a TBI 1000BaseX fiber interface. The TBI support in the
> driver makes switching to phylib tricky, so best would be to get
> rid of it. I found no report from anybody using a device with RTL8169
> and fiber interface, also the vendor driver doesn't support this mode
> (any longer).
> So remove TBI support and bail out with a message if a card with
> activated TBI is detected. If there really should be any user of it
> out there, we could add a stripped-down version of the driver
> supporting chip version 01 and TBI only (and maybe move it to
> staging).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Ok, I guess this is reasonable.

Applied, but it will be a mini-disaster if someone is actually making
use of this fiber support for whatever reason.