netdev - Re: r8169 needs CONFIG_REALTEK

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Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:39:58 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@...il.com>, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: r8169 needs CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY

On 08/20/2018 12:44 PM, Marc Dionne wrote:
> The r8169 adapter in one of my machines was not working after updating
> to a current kernel from the merge window, which was fixed by enabling
> CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY.
> 
> So in addition to "select PHYLIB", should CONFIG_R8169 not also be
> doing "select CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY" ?

This is fixed in Linus' tree now with:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bfdd19ad80f203f42f05fd32a31c678c9c524ef9
-- 
Florian