Not sure if it's related, but those NICs have a BMC device at function
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02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Realtek RealManage BMC [10ec:816e] (rev 1a)
Trial and error shows that increase the loop wait on
rtl_ep_ocp_read_cond to 30 can eliminate the issue, so let
rtl8168ep_driver_start() to wait a bit longer.
Fixes: e6d6ca6e1204 ("r8169: Add support for another RTL8168FP") Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>