On 17-11-29 06:11:22, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 07:51:06PM -0700, Cameron Seader wrote:
> > Greetings, The upstream kernel seems to be outdated with version 1.09.9 of
> > the drivers/net/usb/r8152.c driver. There is newer hardware now which
> > requires the newer version where running with the old one becomes unstable.
> > For example the latest Dell Precision 5520 uses this driver. I have
> > currently tested the newest driver I can find which is dated 8/30/2017 at
> > version 2.09.0.
> >
> > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=56&PFid=56&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#RTL8153
> >
> > Attached is the driver.
> >
> > I have compiled this newer driver on Kernel 4.14.1 on openSUSE Tumbleweed
> > and have been successful with no issues. It certainly is a lot more stable
> > than the previous which caused issues coming out of sleep mode where it
> > would drop the speed of the NIC to 100 and set it to half duplex.
> >
> > I'm asking that we please look at updating this driver in the latest kernel.
>
> Care to submit patches to update the existing in-kernel driver to provide the
> support that this out-of-tree driver has? That's the only way this is going
> to happen :)
Magic firmware blobs in the source. I love it... :)
Petko
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