Re: [PATCH] ethernet/atheros/alx: add Killer E2400 device ID

[Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>]

Hello.

On 11/18/2015 4:21 AM, Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:

> From: Ben Pope <benpope81@gmail.com>
>
> This patch adds the PCI device ID (0xe0a1) and alx_pci_tbl entry for the
> Killer E2400 Ethernet controller, modeled after the Killer E2200
> controller support (0xe091) already present in the alx driver.
>
> This patch was originally authored by Ben Pope, but it got held up by
> issues in the commit message, so I'm resubmitting it on his behalf.
>
> I've extensively used a kernel with this patch on a System76 serw9
> laptop and am quite confident it works well (at least on the hardware I
> have available for testing).
>
> Note that as a favor to System76, Ubuntu has been carrying this as a
> sauce patch in their 4.2 based Wily kernel, which presumably has given
> it real-world testing on other E2400 equipped hardware (I don't know of
> any Ubuntu kernel bugs filed about it):
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1498633
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gerard DeRose <jason@system76.com>

    No sign-off from Ben?

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MBR, Sergei