netdev - Re: issue with 85a19b0e31e2 on 4.19 -> revert

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Date:   Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:52:19 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
        cwhuang@...roid-x86.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: issue with 85a19b0e31e2 on 4.19 -> revert

On 28.03.2020 00:24, David Miller wrote:
> From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:10:57 +0100
> 
>> Somehow that change made it to -stable. See e.g. commit
>> 85a19b0e31e256e77fd4124804b9cec10619de5e for 4.19.
> 
> This is a serious issue in that it seems that the people maintaining
> the older stable release integrate arbitrary patches even if they
> haven't been sent to v5.4 and v5.5
> 
> And I don't handle -stable backport submissions that far back anyways.
> 
> Therefore, I'm not going to participate in that ongoing problem, so
> feel free to contact the folks who integrated those changes into
> -stable and ask them to revert.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Greg,

commit 85a19b0e31e2 ("r8169: check that Realtek PHY driver module is loaded")
made it accidentally to 4.19 and causes an issue with Android/x86.
Could you please revert it?

Thanks, Heiner