linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for Microsoft Devkit

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Message-ID: <87k01s6tkr.fsf@miraculix.mork.no>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:33:08 +0100
From:   Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for Microsoft
 Devkit

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:32:28 +0000 Andre Przywara wrote:
>> The Microsoft Devkit 2023 is a an ARM64 based machine featuring a
>> Realtek 8153 USB3.0-to-GBit Ethernet adapter. As in their other
>> machines, Microsoft uses a custom USB device ID.
>> 
>> Add the respective ID values to the driver. This makes Ethernet work on
>> the MS Devkit device. The chip has been visually confirmed to be a
>> RTL8153.
>
> Hm, we have a patch in net-next which reformats the entries:
> ec51fbd1b8a2bca2948dede99c14ec63dc57ff6b
>
> Would you like this ID to be also added in stable? We could just 
> apply it to net, and deal with the conflict locally. But if you 
> don't care about older kernels then better if you rebase.

And now I started worrying about consequences of that reformatting...
Maybe I didn't give this enough thought?

Please let me know if you prefer to have the old macro name back.  We
can avoid reformatting the list.


Bjørn