From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: 553024@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Net driver module dependencies on PHY driver modules
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:42:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256989326.3136.284.camel@localhost> (raw)
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I'm handling a bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/553024> relating to
tg3 using phylib and missing the broadcom module.
There seem to be two general problems here:
1. PHY drivers are not auto-loaded
2. An initramfs builder cannot statically determine that a net device
requires a PHY driver
It seems to me that PHY drivers should have aliases based on MDIO PHY
ids, and phylib should request_module() if no suitable driver is
registered. This would solve (1) and go some way to solving (2).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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- Robert Coveyou
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2009-10-31 11:42 Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-10-31 15:34 ` Net driver module dependencies on PHY driver modules Tim Gardner
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