Commit e8113b2f authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "r8169: check that Realtek PHY driver module is loaded"

This reverts commit 85a19b0e which is
commit f3259377 upstream.

Heiner writes:
	commit 85a19b0e ("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?

Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7df44c92
......@@ -7433,15 +7433,6 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
int chipset, region, i;
int jumbo_max, rc;
/* Some tools for creating an initramfs don't consider softdeps, then
* r8169.ko may be in initramfs, but realtek.ko not. Then the generic
* PHY driver is used that doesn't work with most chip versions.
*/
if (!driver_find("RTL8201CP Ethernet", &mdio_bus_type)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?\n");
return -ENOENT;
}
dev = devm_alloc_etherdev(&pdev->dev, sizeof (*tp));
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;
......
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