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| author | Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> | 2020-04-27 21:07:00 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-04-27 13:25:13 -0700 |
| commit | 0c2006b29e5f62784c70209e71da7876267e0e2d (patch) | |
| tree | 2c86adac76cd3711571bc678f98bddfdad5e5be3 /drivers/net/ethernet/realtek | |
| parent | a21643cf569b74039cd5e8a1ecbf33c7d17d9486 (diff) | |
r8169: improve error message if no dedicated PHY driver is found
There's a number of consumer mainboards where the BIOS leaves the PHY
in a state that it's reporting an invalid PHY ID. To detect such cases
add the PHY ID to the error message if no dedicated PHY driver is found.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/realtek')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index f70e36c20431..68d5255568a5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -5197,7 +5197,8 @@ static int r8169_mdio_register(struct rtl8169_private *tp) /* Most chip versions fail with the genphy driver. * Therefore ensure that the dedicated PHY driver is loaded. */ - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?\n"); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no dedicated PHY driver found for PHY ID 0x%08x, maybe realtek.ko needs to be added to initramfs?\n", + tp->phydev->phy_id); return -EUNATCH; } |