Re: Bug#992886: r8169: no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0xc1071002

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallweit@web.de> writes:

> A number of Gigabyte boards from ~2009 have broken BIOS support, resulting in the PHY
> reporting an invalid PHY ID. Realtek / Gigabyte don't release errata information,
> therefore there's not much that can be done. In bugzilla.kernel.org you can find
> workarounds that helped for some users, else use the r8168 driver.

Why can't we add a quirk for the invalid IDs?  Are they variable or just
too many?  Or colliding with some real PHY ID in use?  If not, then I
don't see why this problem can't be solved.

Yes, yes, stealing IDs is bad.  But our priority is making hardware work
despite buggy firmware.  And ALL firmware is buggy.  After all, it's
just software in a straitjacket.



Bjørn