Bug#463705: please add r8169 kernel module to mips/r5k-ip32 build

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-r5k-ip32
Versione: 2.6.24-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi, I am using a network card managed by "RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit
Ethernet driver" on an SGI O2 machine since many months without any
problem.

Would you please add this module to the package? A very simple patch is:

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diff -ruN linux-2.6-2.6.24.orig/debian/config/mips/config.r5k-ip32 linux-2.6-2.6.24/debian/config/mips/config.r5k-ip32
--- linux-2.6-2.6.24.orig/debian/config/mips/config.r5k-ip32	2008-02-02 15:56:58.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-2.6.24/debian/config/mips/config.r5k-ip32	2008-02-02 16:02:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -422,7 +422,9 @@
 # CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
 # CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
 # CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
-# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
+CONFIG_R8169=m
+CONFIG_R8169_NAPI=y
+CONFIG_R8169_VLAN=y
 # CONFIG_SIS190 is not set
 # CONFIG_SKGE is not set
 # CONFIG_SKY2 is not set
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Thanks a lot,
Giuseppe