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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:50:38 +0200
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Module loading problem since 5.3
Hi Luis,
as maintainer of the r8169 network driver I got user reports that
since 5.3 they get errors due to the needed PHY driver module
not being loaded. See e.g. following bug ticket:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204343
As mentioned in comment 7 the PHY driver module should be loaded
at two places in the code:
1. phylib when probing the PHY (based on PHY ID)
2. r8169 driver uses the following to ensure PHY driver gets loaded before:
MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: realtek")
The issue doesn't exist on all systems, e.g. my test system loads
the PHY driver module normally. On affected systems manually adding
a softdep works around the issue and loads the PHY driver module
properly. Are you aware of any current issues with module loading
that could cause this problem?
Heiner
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