From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethernet/atheros/alx: add Killer E2400 device ID Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:01:35 +0300 Message-ID: <564C84BF.1090202@cogentembedded.com> References: <1447809667-9454-1-git-send-email-jason@system76.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Pope To: Jason Gerard DeRose , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com ([209.85.217.175]:35652 "EHLO mail-lb0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755900AbbKROBj (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:01:39 -0500 Received: by lbbsy6 with SMTP id sy6so24793030lbb.2 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:01:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1447809667-9454-1-git-send-email-jason@system76.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello. On 11/18/2015 4:21 AM, Jason Gerard DeRose wrote: > From: Ben Pope > > 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 No sign-off from Ben? [...] MBR, Sergei