netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Add new device ID support

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Message-Id: <20181023.225442.1195260610454764659.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     shawn.lin@...k-chips.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Add new device ID support

From: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:48:55 +0800

> Hi David,
> 
> On 2018/10/24 10:19, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:46:47 +0800
>> 
>>> It's found my r8169 ethernet card at hand has a device ID
>>> of 0x0000 which wasn't on the list of rtl8169_pci_tbl. Add
>>> a new entry to make it work:
>>   ...
>>> 01:00.0 Class 0200: 10ec:0000
>> I don't know about this.
>> A value of zero could mean the device is mis-responding to
>> PCI config space requests or something like that.
> 
> It was working fine on my retired Windows XP home PC with same devcice
> ID listed, so I guess r8169 driver for windows system knows 0x0000 is
> also valid.

It is also possible the device comes up in a different state.

Under windows does it show with that device ID of zero?