From 0c2006b29e5f62784c70209e71da7876267e0e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:07:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] r8169: improve error message if no dedicated PHY driver is found
Git-commit: 0c2006b29e5f62784c70209e71da7876267e0e2d
Patch-mainline: v5.8-rc1
References: bsc#1175746
There's a number of consumer mainboards where the BIOS leaves the PHY
in a state that it's reporting an invalid PHY ID. To detect such cases
add the PHY ID to the error message if no dedicated PHY driver is found.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -5227,7 +5227,6 @@ static int r8169_mdio_register(struct rt
* Therefore ensure that the dedicated PHY driver is loaded.
*/
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?\n");
- mdiobus_unregister(new_bus);
return -EUNATCH;
}