[elrepo] r8169 driver for 7.5

[Nick Howitt]

On 22/05/2018 18:02, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 4:53 AM, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Is there any chance of updating the r8169 driver to be compatible with 7.5?
>> I am getting the following errors:
>>
>>     /home/build/rpmbuild/BUILD/r8169-6.020.00/src/r8169_n.c:2617:9:
>>     error: unknown field 'ndo_change_mtu' specified in initializer
>>               .ndo_change_mtu  = rtl8169_change_mtu,
> That build error can be fixed by changing
>
> .ndo_change_mtu
>
> to
>
> .ndo_change_mtu_rh74
> (Thanks to pgreco for the fix)
>
> By the way does the in-kernel r8169 driver not work for you?
>
> Akemi
The in-kernel driver does work but I have a problem. My box has both an 
r8168 and r8169 card in it. The kmod-r8168 blacklists the r8169 driver 
to stop it from loading. If I remove the blacklist, it sometimes loads 
against the r8168 card and sometimes it does not. Installing the 
kmod-r8169 driver removes the 8168 PCI ID from its compatibility list. 
This allows me to remove the blacklist and have both drivers 
automatically load against the correct NIC's. I did try taking this up 
on the lists with the 7.4 upgrade, suggesting the r8168 driver stopped 
blacklisting the r8169 and instead installed the kmod-r8169 as a 
dependency, but I was told no.

Regards, Nick