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The driver from Realtek is GPL2. Maybe the code quality is not good enough for the kernel. https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-

by gsich 5y ago

The driver from Realtek is GPL2. Maybe the code quality is not good enough for the kernel. https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-in...

my123 5y ago
They are upstream nowadays. Supported mainline by the r8169 driver.
- gsich 5y ago
  Yeah, but according to the blog post there must be some difference. "Supported" but not "fully supported". Mainline has 8k lines, Realteks driver has 15k lines in only 1 .c file and there are some more.