From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-kernel] Patch for 2.6.27-r3; needed for r8169 to compile
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e38d12ff0811211942q6b2dd7fewa80328db7f8df200@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e38d12ff0811211940y3d809bf7m652ab37b0c954285@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, gentoo-sources maintainers!
The following patch fixes ERROR: "mii_ethtool_gset"
[drivers/net/r8169.ko] undefined!
Please add this to the -r3 patchset if possible (otherwise -r3 and -r4
for 2.6.27.6 is excessive).
From LKML:
Hi,
The r8169 module needs the MII hardware support library.
Here is a patch for the drivers/net/Kconfig
Jean.
diff -uNr linux-2.6.27.6.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
linux-2.6.27.6/drivers/net/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.27.6.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig 2008-11-13
12:56:21.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.27.6/drivers/net/Kconfig 2008-11-18 12:24:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -2046,6 +2046,7 @@
tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support"
depends on PCI
select CRC32
+ select MII
---help---
Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
--
Andrey Vul
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-22 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
[parent not found: <e38d12ff0811211940y3d809bf7m652ab37b0c954285@mail.gmail.com>]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=e38d12ff0811211942q6b2dd7fewa80328db7f8df200@mail.gmail.com \
--to=andrey.vul@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox