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| author | Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> | 2019-01-15 21:11:14 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-01-16 20:56:47 -0800 |
| commit | 1868e3d72236cbaf92c99b89f0bc0d8bdb0c47d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a51adf529225b4db3b154d6dfa0ade313a08a25 /drivers/net/phy | |
| parent | 159882f42c41e60d3a3dce4b779da9fc8f00c2f2 (diff) | |
net: phy: remove preliminary workaround for not loading PHY driver
This workaround attempt helped for some but not all affected users.
With commit 11287b693d03 ("r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module
before r8169") we have a better workaround now, so we an remove
the first attempt.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index 51990002d495..a2423cbb218d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -2250,14 +2250,6 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner) new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove; new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner; - /* The following works around an issue where the PHY driver doesn't bind - * to the device, resulting in the genphy driver being used instead of - * the dedicated driver. The root cause of the issue isn't known yet - * and seems to be in the base driver core. Once this is fixed we may - * remove this workaround. - */ - new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS; - retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver); if (retval) { pr_err("%s: Error %d in registering driver\n", |