From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Getting the correct asix AX88178 usb gige driver in mainline?
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:55:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107071455.36975.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110706210857.GH22090@merlins.org>
On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > The patch I mentioned was merged back in 2006, for 2.6.19. Either that
> > patch was never complete and is missing support for your hardware, or
> > it broke since then. You should probably try an old kernel to see if it's
> > actually a regression.
>
> Thanks for the details Arnd, I'll see if I can boot 2.6.19 on that laptop
> and report back.
I would perhaps try something less ancient first, 2.6.27-longterm would be
a good candidate. If it was working at some point but broken later, chances
are that it wasn't broken until a few years ago, rather than shortly after
it was merged.
Arnd
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2011-07-06 17:25 ` Getting the correct asix AX88178 usb gige driver in mainline? Marc MERLIN
2011-07-06 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 21:08 ` Marc MERLIN
2011-07-07 12:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-07 17:23 ` Marc MERLIN
2011-07-07 17:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
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