netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fix issue with loading PHY driver w/o initramfs

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:46:53 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fix issue with loading PHY driver w/o initramfs

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 10:30, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <krzk@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---

Fixes the issue for me, thanks!
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof