netdev - Re: About r8169 regression 5.4

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Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:36:53 +0200
From:   Vincas Dargis <vindrg@...il.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About r8169 regression 5.4

2020-02-17 21:59, Heiner Kallweit rašė:
> Great, thanks a lot for testing! Then the bisecting shouldn't be needed. Since 5.4 these features are enabled by default,
> up to 5.3 they are available but have to be enabled explicitly. This should explain the observed behavior.
> So it looks like this chip version has a hw issue with tx checksumming. I contacted Realtek to see whether
> they are aware of any such hw issue. Depending on their feedback we may have to add a quirk for this chip version
> to not enable these features by default.

Look great! Please let me know if any more testing is needed.