need advice for realtek in-house driver

[★☆ J. J. ©Øß ☆★]

I expect that comunity take a positive response to the initiative from
Shuduo Sang. If he had contribute to solve this particular bug on realtek
oem drivers, why not pay atention to her advises?
>From to the good of the linux comunity, not only ubuntu...

I wish have many more people like this nice guy because have many issues
with hardware and a lots of workarounds to be fixed.

God bless yours my friends


2013/7/2 Shuduo Sang <shuduo.sang at canonical.com>

> Hi kernel guys,
>
> My name is Shuduo Sang and I'm working on OEM preload project from OEM
> team. I have worked on the bug #1155017 [1] and solved it by realtek
> official in-house driver 8.36.0 from their website [2]. And I happened to
> see Ubuntu 13.04 still has this issue. I compared the upstream r8169
> driver with realtek in-house driver and see they are very different. And
> according to realtek website, there is another driver for r8169 [3]. But
> in upstream kernel, there is only one r8169 driver.
>
> I can see contributor list in the head part of upstream r8168.c as below:
>
>    1 /*
>    2  * r8169.c: RealTek 8169/8168/8101 ethernet driver.
>    3  *
>    4  * Copyright (c) 2002 ShuChen <shuchen at realtek.com.tw>
>    5  * Copyright (c) 2003 - 2007 Francois Romieu <romieu at fr.zoreil.com>
>    6  * Copyright (c) a lot of people too. Please respect their work.
>
> Seems original version submission was submitted by realtek engineer in
> 2002 then has been modified many times by community. So we expect lots of
> difference between upstream version and in-house version.
>
> We already learnt some lessons that the fix was in OEM but not in upstream then
> the end user will meet this issue when they use Linux distro although it
> has be fixed in OEM project. I guess community people might be not aware
> realtek driver update but they should welcome patch submission from realtek.
> But seems realtek is not much proactive to push their in-house driver to
> upstream.
>
> I'm not sure what we canonical can help on because of technical and legal
> reason. So I send email to list for advice what we can do to integrate that
> realtek in-house driver into Ubuntu distro if no way to push to upstream.
>
> Regards,
> Shuduo
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/sutton/+bug/1155017
>
> [2] http://www.realtek
> .com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
>
> [3] http://www.realtek
> .com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=4&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true
>
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