netdev - Re: r8169 needs CONFIG_REALTEK

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Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:33:33 -0300
From:   Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     hkallweit1@...il.com, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: r8169 needs CONFIG_REALTEK_PHY

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> 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

Ah thanks for the quick reply, thought I had done a fresh pull before
reporting the problem; it is indeed fixed in Linus' current tree.

Sorry for the noise,
Marc