netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] r8169: add EEE support for RTL8168g+

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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:03:10 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] r8169: add EEE support for RTL8168g+

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:37:30 +0100

> This series adds general EEE support to be used with ethtool.
> In addition it implements EEE for chip versions from RTL8168g.
> The first patch leaves the default chip settings and the
> second enables EEE per default. This allows us to revert patch 2
> w/o removing EEE support completely if we should face issues with
> EEE on particular chip versions.
> 
> Unfortunately Realtek decided not to use the standard EEE MMD
> registers but to use proprietary registers. Therefore we can't
> use phylib functions like phy_ethtool_set_eee and have to
> reimplement the functionality.
> 
> Tested on a system with RTL8168g (chip version 40).

Series applied, thanks Heiner.