From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:07:04 +0200
> The very first version of RTL8169 from 2002 (and only this one) has > support for a TBI 1000BaseX fiber interface. The TBI support in the > driver makes switching to phylib tricky, so best would be to get > rid of it. I found no report from anybody using a device with RTL8169 > and fiber interface, also the vendor driver doesn't support this mode > (any longer). > So remove TBI support and bail out with a message if a card with > activated TBI is detected. If there really should be any user of it > out there, we could add a stripped-down version of the driver > supporting chip version 01 and TBI only (and maybe move it to > staging). > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Ok, I guess this is reasonable. Applied, but it will be a mini-disaster if someone is actually making use of this fiber support for whatever reason.
