Re: [PATCH V2] r8152: add Linksys USB3GIGV1 id

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Sep 27 2017 - 03:16:10 EST


Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2017, 08:19 -0700 schrieb Doug Anderson:
>
> I know that for at least some of the adapters in the CDC Ethernet
> blacklist it was claimed that the CDC Ethernet support in the adapter
> was kinda broken anyway so the blacklist made sense. ...but for the
> Linksys Gigabit adapter the CDC Ethernet driver seems to work OK, it's
> just not quite as full featured / efficient as the R8152 driver.
>
> Is that not a concern? I guess you could tell people in this
> situation that they simply need to enable the R8152 driver to get
> continued support for their Ethernet adapter?

Hi,

yes, it is a valid concern. An #ifdef will be needed.

Regards
Oliver