Re: tg3 'No PHY devices' loading issue

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:10:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:50:07AM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Hi Matt and Michael,
> > > 
> > > I'm seeing an odd issue with the tg3 driver on one of my development
> > > machines.  I've tried kernels 3.2.10, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.4-rc3
> > > and they all seem to exhibit this issue now.  When the machine boots
> > > and the tg3 driver is loaded, it fails to find a PHY and then reports
> > > 'Problem fetching invariants of chip'.  If I do a rmmod/modprobe of
> > > tg3 after login, the probe seems to work fine and ethernet works as
> > > expected.  You can see this in the dmesg below:
> [...]
> > The 57788 uses the broadcom phylib module.  For some reason, it isn't
> > available the first module load attempt.  A while ago, code was added to
> > phylib to request modules from userspace if the particular phy support
> > code wasn't already loaded.  It looks like this mechanism isn't working
> > too well the first time through.
> [...]
> 
> At a guess, tg3 is in the initramfs but broadcom isn't.

Good guess.  At least on one of the initramfs' I checked.  I'll verify
the others, but it seems likely they match.  As I just said in my other
reply, I would have expected tg3 to have a module dep on it to get it
included in the initramfs built, but it seems that isn't the case.

josh