need advice for realtek in-house driver

[Shuduo Sang]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:55 PM, ★☆ J. J. ©Øß ☆★ <marcosjacoby at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Thanks Marcos. We all do wish Linux or Ubuntu become better and better. :)


> 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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