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On 10/03/2013 20:28, Daniel Wagener wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… |
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> My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. |
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> Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess because of som patents) |
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> That worked for quite some time, until i thought "hey, you got an hour of time, your workstation is still on 3.7.4, why don't you just upgrade it to 3.8.2?" |
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> So I did, only to find out that Linus and his friends changed the way drivers are initialized… (__devinit got unsupported for example) |
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> Of course, the guys who wrote that r8169 have not changed their code yet. |
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> tl;dr: |
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> My network is broken since 3.8.0. |
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> So for an immediate fix I am emerging 3.7.10 (since emerge --depclean deleted the Kernel source when it found the source fo 3.7.8 which got removed as soon as 3.8.2 was emerged…) to get it working again. |
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> For the long run im thinking of buying a PCI(e) card with Kernel support. |
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> Or maybe, if I find some time I will fix the driver myself. |
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> My question now is: |
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> Who should I talk to so something like this does not happen again? |
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yourself |
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> A certain gentoo dev, who could issue warnings on emerging kernels, something like excerpts from the changelog? |
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> Myself, because I missed what I described above? |
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yes, this one. The gentoo manual has many references to keeping more |
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than one kernel sources and working kernels around Why do you delete |
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previous ones before fully testing the new one? |
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You are not supposed to do that |
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> The devs of the r8169? |
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A polite request here would not go amiss |
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> Linus & co for breaking things? |
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Linus and the kernel devs broke nothing. Don't even think of going |
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there. Instead read the most famous stable_api_nonsense text file |
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shipped with all kernel sources |
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> Myself bcause I forgot something else? |
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> Realtek? |
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> Or someone completely different? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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