Comment # 4 on bug 1171027 from Takashi Iwai

Thanks for a quick test.  Then it'll be fixed in the next release.

FWIW, the corresponding changelog should be
      r8169: fix PHY driver check on platforms w/o module softdeps
the commit 457b050d08d74b9f20266e3ce092e9b18fbeeff6
(upstream commit 2e8c339b4946490a922a21aa8cd869c6cfad2023).