netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove support for RTL8100e

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Message-Id: <20191017.151159.1692504406678037890.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:11:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove support for RTL8100e

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:59:43 +0200

> It's unclear where these entries came from and also the r8101
> vendor driver doesn't mention any such chip type. So let's
> remove these entries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Hmmm... does it really hurt anything to keep them in there?

Maybe we think these chips don't exist, but it would be a real
shame to brake someone's setup when we really didn't need to.