netdev - Re: Getting the correct asix AX88178 usb gige driver in mainline?

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Message-ID: <20110706210857.GH22090@merlins.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2011 14:08:57 -0700
From:	Marc MERLIN <marc@...lins.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: Getting the correct asix AX88178 usb gige driver in mainline?

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:09:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Here are the details. If somehow their driver could be integrated in
> > mainline by putting the relevant bits in the current driver, that would be
> > fantastic :)
> > (obviously it would have been better if they had done that themselves to
> > start with, no idea why they didn't).
> > 
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> I've taken a look at the driver you linked to and compared it to the
> version that was closest at the time.
> 
> This is similar to the patch they must have had at some point. I would guess
> that the answer is somewhere in there. It's quite different to the much
> cleaner patch 933a27d39e "USB: asix - Add AX88178 support and many other
> changes", which was merged later with a similar intention.

(...)

> The patch I mentioned was merged back in 2006, for 2.6.19. Either that
> patch was never complete and is missing support for your hardware, or
> it broke since then. You should probably try an old kernel to see if it's
> actually a regression.

Thanks for the details Arnd, I'll see if I can boot 2.6.19 on that laptop
and report back.

Marc
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