libphy fails to detect RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express lan card

Since approx a month ago (not sure of exact date), linux-lts fails to detect my pcie lan card, despite r8169 being loaded:

r8169 0000:05:00.0: realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it needs to be added to initramfs?

I believe this patch is needed (or related) to fix the issue: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/21/812

I do not have a workaround

lsmod | egrep "r8"
r8169                  94208  0
libphy                 94208  1 r8169

uname -a
Linux alpine 5.4.28-0-lts #1-Alpine SMP Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:00:15 UTC x86_64 Linux

sudo lspci -v

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: TP-LINK Technologies Co., Ltd. TG-3468 Gigabit PCI Express Network Adapter
        Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
        Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx