From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@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 <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
