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

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Message-ID: <c8963e4a-2cda-e9f0-eb4d-f6919c58391e@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:39:08 +0200
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 30.03.2020 16:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Now reverted.  Should I also drop this from 5.4.y and 5.5.y?
> 
Thanks! On 5.4 and 5.5 it's not needed to revert. The following fix from 5.6
should make it to 5.4 and 5.5 soon.

2e8c339b4946 ("r8169: fix PHY driver check on platforms w/o module softdeps")

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
Heiner