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> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c index 361ae9e..807ef43 100644 --- 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 *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; -- 1.8.3