From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hkallweit1@gmail.com
Cc: nic_swsd@realtek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module before r8169
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:41:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190108.134105.976799617539270042.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8110915c-a514-34e7-e4b3-1f00cae76aa5@gmail.com>
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:49:09 +0100
> This soft dependency works around an issue where sometimes the genphy
> driver is used instead of the dedicated PHY driver. The root cause of
> the issue isn't clear yet. People reported the unloading/re-loading
> module r8169 helps, and also configuring this soft dependency in
> the modprobe config files. Important just seems to be that the
> realtek module is loaded before r8169.
>
> Once this has been applied preliminary fix 38af4b903210 ("net: phy:
> add workaround for issue where PHY driver doesn't bind to the device")
> will be removed.
>
> Fixes: f1e911d5d0df ("r8169: add basic phylib support")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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2019-01-07 20:49 [PATCH net] r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module before r8169 Heiner Kallweit
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