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r8169: disable detection of chip version 36 

I found no evidence that this chip version ever made it to the mass
market. Therefore disable detection. Like in similar cases before:
If nobody complains, we'll remove support for this chip version after
few months.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac622d4a-ae0a-3817-710f-849db4015c78@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Heiner Kallweit 2022-09-09 08:00:22 +02:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
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drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
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@ -1996,7 +1996,10 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid, bool gmii)
/* 8168F family. */
{ 0x7c8, 0x488, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38 },
{ 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 },
/* It seems this chip version never made it to
* the wild. Let's disable detection.
* { 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 },
*/
{ 0x7cf, 0x480, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 },
/* 8168E family. */