[elrepo] r8101/r8168/r8169 suggestion

[Nick Howitt]

On 26/10/2017 17:18, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On October 26, 2017 5:41:25 PM GMT+03:00, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can I suggest a change to the packaging of the above three drivers? I'd
>>
>> like to suggest the three drivers are all made dependants of each other
>>
>> and that the file \usr\lib\modprobe.d\blacklist-r8169.conf is removed
> >from the r8101 and r8168 drivers? My reasoning is as follows:
>> The stock driver covers the following PCI ID's:
>> pci:v00000001d00008168sv*sd00002410bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001737d00001032sv*sd00000024bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000016ECd00000116sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001259d0000C107sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004302sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv00001186sd00004B10bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008169sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008167sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008136sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> The kmod-r8101 covers:
>> pci:v000010ECd00008136sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> The kmod-r8168 covers:
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv00001186sd00004B10bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008161sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008168sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> And the kmod-r8169 covers:
>> pci:v00001186d00004302sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv00001186sd00004C00bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004302sv00001186sd00004302bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001186d00004300sv00001186sd00004300bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008169sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008167sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> This leaves the following unknown in the ElRepo database:
>> pci:v000016ECd00000116sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v00001259d0000C107sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>> pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> And the following known and not supplied (sk98lin) by ElRepo:
>> pci:v00001737d00001032sv*sd00000024bc*sc*i*
>>
>>
>> The current situation is that if you install either the kmod-r8101 or
>> kmod-r8168 then you can no longer use any NIC covered by the original
>> r8169 or the kmod-r8168 drivers, because the r8169 is blacklisted. If
>> the blacklist were removed and the dependencies added as I suggest (or
>> the drivers were packaged as one) then the
>> kmod-r8101/kmod-r8168/kmod-r8169 combo becomes a proper drop-in
>> replacement for the stock r8169 and it becomes possible, for example,
>> to
>> run r8168 and r8169 cards at the same time with the ElRepo drivers. (I
>> know as I do it, but had to resort to modprobing the r8169 until I
>> discovered it was blacklisted).
>>
> The 3 drivers are independent of each other so I do not think that they should depend on each other.
> I'd rathet see documented that the blacklisting of stock r8169 can be removed if one really insists on combining stock and elrepo drivers.
>
> But frankly you are the first person that I know of who needs that. Everybody else I know of either uses Intel/BRCM /Cavium cards/chipsets or relies on more or less identical Realtek ones.
Agreed, they are independent of each other, but only as a set do they 
replace the stock r8169. Anyone installed on its own removes NIC 
compatibility. If they are properly independent, I would have thought 
they should not blacklist the r8169.
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