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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>

authored by

Heiner Kallweit and committed by
Jakub Kicinski 42666b2c feceb24e

+4 -1
+4 -1
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
··· 1996 1996 1997 1997 /* 8168F family. */ 1998 1998 { 0x7c8, 0x488, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38 }, 1999 - { 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 }, 1999 + /* It seems this chip version never made it to 2000 + * the wild. Let's disable detection. 2001 + * { 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 }, 2002 + */ 2000 2003 { 0x7cf, 0x480, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 }, 2001 2004 2002 2005 /* 8168E family. */