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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:53:15 +0200

> Hi, Matt
> 
> Matt Carlson wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:32:18PM -0700, Felix Radensky wrote:
>>   
>> Is the broadcom module also compiled into the kernel?
>>
>>   
> Yes.

I bet this is all because the tg3 driver is linked into the kernel
before the PHY layer and drivers subdirectory or something like that.

Link order determines the order in which built-in initializations
occur (within the same init type).