netdev - [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove comment about apparently non-existing chip versions

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Message-ID: <5c282efc-0734-9153-905c-e54ffbc82f60@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2022 22:21:57 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove comment about apparently non-existing
 chip versions

It's not clear where these entries came from, and as I wrote in the
comment: Not even Realtek's r8101 driver knows these chip id's.
So remove the comment.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index 779ca268d..a8b0070bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -2050,12 +2050,6 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid, bool gmii)
 		{ 0x7c8, 0x348,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_09 },
 		{ 0x7c8, 0x248,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_09 },
 		{ 0x7c8, 0x340,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_16 },
-		/* FIXME: where did these entries come from ? -- FR
-		 * Not even r8101 vendor driver knows these id's,
-		 * so let's disable detection for now. -- HK
-		 * { 0xfc8, 0x388,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_13 },
-		 * { 0xfc8, 0x308,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_13 },
-		 */
 
 		/* 8110 family. */
 		{ 0xfc8, 0x980,	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_06 },
-- 
2.37.3