Re: [PATCH] PCI: nVidia's MCP61 ethernet card needs quirk for wrong class

[Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > PCI: nVidia's MCP61 ethernet card needs quirk for wrong class
> > The MCP61 ethernet controller from nVidia (NVENET_19) contains wrong
> > PCI class:
> >  00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev
> >  a2)
> > i.e. it identifies itself as a bridge. Fix this.
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> What is the problem that is present without this patch?

Userspace tools that are used to configure network are probable not to 
detect this device as a network card and therefore not provide means to 
configure the device (this is a case at least with yast, I don't know what 
is the situation with other configurators).

There might be also other situations, I don't know. Userspace really 
should know the proper class of the device, shouldn't it?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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