On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:02:42PM +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> Since 4.19 the following error in sysfs has appeared when using the
> r8169 NIC driver:
>
> $cd /sys/module/realtek/drivers
> $ls -l
> ls: cannot access 'mdio_bus:RTL8201F 10/100Mbps Ethernet': No such file or
> directory
> [..garbled dir entries follow..]
>
> Apparently the forward slash in "10/100Mbps Ethernet" is interpreted
> as directory separator that leads nowhere, and was introduced in commit
> 513588dd44b ("net: phy: realtek: add RTL8201F phy-id and functions").
>
> Fix this by removing the offending slash in the driver name.
>
> Other drivers in net/phy seem to have the same problem, but I cannot
> test/verify them.
Hi Holger
This last comment would generally be placed after the ---. It will
then not appear in the commit message.
Also, in future, please put the target tree, net or net-next as part
of the subject line:
[PATCH net] ....
Thanks
Andrew
