From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Norbert Jurkeit <norbert.jurkeit@web.de>,
nic_swsd@realtek.com, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.wiktowy@gmail.com,
jcline@redhat.com, marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:20:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181121202034.GA10697@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38dad61b-bc7f-7038-6d1b-f5c4afe3841c@gmail.com>
> request_module() is supposed to be synchronous, however after some
> reading this may not be 100% guaranteed. Maybe the module init
> function on some systems isn't finished yet when request_module()
> returns. As a result the genphy driver may be used instead of
> the PHY version-specific driver.
Hi Heiner
That would be true for all PHYs i think. We would of noticed this
problem with other systems using other PHY drivers.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-21 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-21 10:51 Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19 Norbert Jurkeit
2018-11-21 19:57 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-21 20:20 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-11-21 20:32 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-21 20:49 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-21 20:52 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-21 21:53 ` Marc Dionne
2018-11-21 22:28 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-21 23:13 ` Marc Dionne
2018-11-22 18:17 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-22 18:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-11-22 19:48 ` Heiner Kallweit
2018-11-22 19:29 ` Marc Dionne
2018-11-22 19:53 ` Heiner Kallweit
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