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net: phy: remove preliminary workaround for not loading PHY driver

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This workaround attempt helped for some but not all affected users.
With commit 11287b693d ("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>
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Heiner Kallweit 2019-01-15 21:11:14 +01:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 159882f42c
commit 1868e3d722
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drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
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@ -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",