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

[Jason Gerard DeRose <jason@system76.com>]

On 11/18/2015 01:06 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Gerard DeRose <jason@system76.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:21:07 -0700
>
>> 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>
>
> Applied.

Much thanks!