Bug 462760

Summary:	sys-kernel/alx? - Qualcomm Atheros AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Zitian Li <lizitian1996>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	josef64
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Zitian Li 2013-03-23 09:17:16 UTC

"alx" is descripted as follows: "Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver".
For a example, we can get it from here:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.8.3/compat-drivers-3.8.3-2-snpu.tar.bz2
And we can find "alx" in "./compat-drivers-3.8.3-2-snpu/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx" after uncompressing the archive.

Without this ethernet driver, it isn't very convenient for its user to use gentoo. And if possible, please add it into LiveCD so that we can install gentoo with wired network. :-)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-06-22 09:31:27 UTC

Why do you close this as OBSOLETE? Is this driver merged into vanilla kernel?

Comment 2 Zitian Li 2013-06-30 23:08:50 UTC

Yes, this driver has been merged into the kernel (version 3.10) by the upstream.

Comment 3 Zitian Li 2013-06-30 23:19:05 UTC

This is the commit (2013-06-17): https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ab69bde6b2e9c37456eeb0051a185446336aef9f