From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:30:21 +0100
> It was reported that on a system with nfsboot and w/o initramfs network
> fails because trying to load the PHY driver returns -ENOENT. Reason was
> that due to missing initramfs the modprobe binary isn't available.
> So we have to ignore error code -ENOENT.
>
> Fixes: 13d0ab6750b2 ("net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver
> module")
> Reported-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Applied.
However, I agree with Geert that we should adopt the:
if (module_not_present)
request_module();
if (module_not_present)
goto failed_to_load;
pattern.
