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[4.19,076/116] Revert "r8169: check that Realtek PHY driver module is loaded"

Message ID 20200401161552.481298942@linuxfoundation.org
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Greg KH April 1, 2020, 4:17 p.m. UTC 
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This reverts commit 85a19b0e31e256e77fd4124804b9cec10619de5e which is
commit f325937735498afb054a0195291bbf68d0b60be5 upstream.

Heiner writes:
	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?

Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
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--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -7433,15 +7433,6 @@  static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *
 	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;