From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: felix@embedded-sol.com, mcarlson@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:53:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254185639.27790.3.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090928.145522.151077608.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:52:54 +0200
>
> > Yes, moving CONFIG_TIGON3 right after CONFIG_PHYLIB in
> > drivers/net/Makefile fixes the problem for me.
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> We really need to fix this generically.
>
> Does anyone think that moving the MDIO/MII/PHY layer objects
> to the top of drivers/net/Makefile will break anything?
>
> If not, that's what we should do I think.
Only the phylib drivers actually need to be moved to fix the
initialisation order, but moving the others shouldn't hurt.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-29 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 21:32 tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver Felix Radensky
2009-09-28 20:52 ` Matt Carlson
2009-09-28 20:53 ` Felix Radensky
2009-09-28 21:15 ` David Miller
2009-09-28 21:52 ` Felix Radensky
2009-09-28 21:55 ` David Miller
2009-09-29 0:53 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-10-09 21:25 ` David Miller
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