Re: Abit F-190HD Onboard rlt8169 Ethernet Controller

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> A vendor ID of 1 is very very very broken. Do all boards have this or do
> you have a faulty box (perhaps a misprogrammed EEPROM somewhere)

>>  	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK,	0x8136), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
>>  	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK,	0x8167), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
>>  	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK,	0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
>> +	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_ANY_ID,		0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },

> That will match any device 0x8168 not just a realtek one. I'd use 0x0001,
> 0x8168 for the match. However I'd seriously consider checking another
> board as I suspect you simply have a return candidate.

Amusingly, 8139too had to deal with the exact same problem.  At the 
time, we chose to obtain the subsystem vendor/device ids, and list them 
that way:

         /* some crazy cards report invalid vendor ids like
          * 0x0001 here.  The other ids are valid and constant,
          * so we simply don't match on the main vendor id.
          */
         {PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x10ec, 0x8139, 0, 0, RTL8139 },
         {PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x1186, 0x1300, 0, 0, RTL8139 },
         {PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x13d1, 0xab06, 0, 0, RTL8139 },

Given that the subsystem vendor ids in particular were sane and valid in 
each case, this seemed narrow enough to avoid false positives.


Regardless, I agree with your "you...have a return candidate" comment.

	Jeff