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 19:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107071943.10479.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707172350.GD13683@merlins.org>
On Thursday 07 July 2011 19:23:50 Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:55:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So, it was problematic to build and boot old kernels for that system, but I
> tried my USB adapter in older systems with older kernels.
>
> 2.6.20 and 2.6.22.1 both were able to bring the interface up and DHCP.
> 2.6.24.3 was NOT able to.
> Neither was 2.6.34.1.
Not a lot has changed int hat driver between 2.6.22 and 2.6.24, so you could
try
git diff v2.6.22..v2.6.24 drivers/net/usb/asix.c | patch -Rp1
on the latest version and see if that helps. There are some rejects, but
those all look harmless.
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
2011-07-07 17:23 ` Marc MERLIN
2011-07-07 17:43 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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