Control: reassign -1 r8168-dkms

On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 10:52 +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
> > The module for my "Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor
> > Co., Ltd.  RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> > [10ec:8168] (rev 09)" does not get loaded at boot under 3.14-2-amd64,
> > but does on previous kernel versions. This device works with both the
> > r8168 and the r8169 modules, but previous kernels loaded r8168.
> 
> I did some more investigating, and it turns out that I had r8168-dkms
> installed, and in its long description:
> 
>  Installation of the r8168-dkms package will disable the in-kernel r8169
>  module. To re-enable r8169, the r8168-dkms package must be purged.
> 
> My hypothesis is that either r8168-dkms failed to compile the DKMS
> module locally on my end for 3.14-2 (most likely), and since the
> r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169 either;
> or that r8168 managed to compile it and 3.14-2 refused to load it, and
> since the r8168-dkms package was installed, the kernel didn't load r8169
> either. After purging r8168-dkms, r8169 started getting loaded properly
> by 3.14-2 at boot.
> 
> Thus, this is likely a non-bug. Sorry for the noise.

It's a bug in r8168 that it failed to compile.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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