From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:47:41 +0100
> 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] ....
This didn't apply cleanly, something mangled the patch.
But I fixed it up and queued this up for -stable.
