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From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 needs CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:38:37 +0200
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On 20.08.2018 21:44, Marc Dionne wrote:
> The r8169 adapter in one of my machines was not working after updating
> to a current kernel from the merge window, which was fixed by enabling
> CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY.
> 
> So in addition to "select PHYLIB", should CONFIG_R8169 not also be
> doing "select CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY" ?
> 
This fix was applied already and is included in latest linux-next.
bfdd19ad80f2 ("r8169: add missing Kconfig dependency")

> Marc
>