From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:31:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100402.143123.230371935.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270206327.3101.2436.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:05:27 +0100
> We don't use the normal hotplug mechanism because it doesn't work. It will
> load the module some time after the device appears, but that's not good
> enough for us -- we need the driver loaded _immediately_ because otherwise
> the NIC driver may just abort and then the phy 'device' goes away.
>
> [bwh: s/phy/mdio/ in module alias, kerneldoc for struct mdio_device_id]
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-02 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-31 1:18 [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading David Woodhouse
2010-04-01 4:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-01 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2010-04-01 18:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-02 2:38 ` David Miller
2010-04-02 11:05 ` David Woodhouse
2010-04-02 17:51 ` Andy Fleming
2010-04-02 21:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-02 11:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] phylib: Add module table to all existing phy drivers David Woodhouse
2010-04-02 21:31 ` David Miller
2010-04-02 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading David Woodhouse
2010-04-02 15:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-04-02 10:38 ` David Woodhouse
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