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    SubjectRe: Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19
    On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:17 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Thanks a lot for testing. Could you please test also the following
    > as an alternative to the delay?
    >
    > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
    > index 55202a0ac..aeccb2323 100644
    > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
    > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
    > @@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
    > new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe = phy_probe;
    > new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
    > new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
    > + new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;
    >
    > retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver);
    > if (retval) {

    That also gets me network reliably, switching between a kernel where
    it fails (distro 4.19 kernel) and the custom kernel with the patch.

    > > There's a side issue that network startup is taking a full minute
    > > longer than it should, but that's possibly unrelated.

    BTW that's an unrelated rng issue, for which I have a workaround.

    > >
    > Thanks, Heiner

    Marc

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