Re: Realtek 8169 NIC driver version

[Andy Lutomirski]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> dlion <dlion2005@xxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
>
> >  I have read some driver codes in the Linux kernel. I noticed
> > that the RTL-8169 driver(r8169.c) is an older version (v1.2).
> > There is a newer drivers on Realtek's website. It's version
> > number is v1.6 , and it is really much better than v1.2. Why
> > not merge it into official kernel realease?
>
>
> It has already been merged in 2.4.x and 2.6.x. That's old history,
> really.

This one bit me awhile back, too.  Could we just remove that version 
number?  (Especially with the latest round of changes, the in-kernel 
driver bears little resemblance to Realtek's.)

--Andy
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