On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:54:01PM +1100, onlyjob wrote: > Perhaps you are right, given the time and the skills and the hardware > and the person skilled and motivated enough it can be upstreamed. > Ideally it should be. IIRC, upstream doesn't want r8168 because supposedly it covers only hardware that is also supported by r8169. They feel that if r8169 is buggy that it should be fixed. Obviously, that isn't helpful at the present moment if the current driver doesn't work for you. Unfortunately, I can't find a reference at the moment, but I do remember reading about it recently. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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