Re: [PATCH net] r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module before r8169

2019-01-08 Thread David Miller
From: Heiner Kallweit 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, an

[PATCH net] r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module before r8169

2019-01-07 Thread Heiner Kallweit
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.