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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:20:34 +0100
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> 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