Re: Issue with RTL8111 NIC after upgrade to kernel 4.19

[Andrew Lunn]

> request_module() is supposed to be synchronous, however after some
> reading this may not be 100% guaranteed. Maybe the module init
> function on some systems isn't finished yet when request_module()
> returns. As a result the genphy driver may be used instead of
> the PHY version-specific driver.

Hi Heiner

That would be true for all PHYs i think. We would of noticed this
problem with other systems using other PHY drivers.

	Andrew