From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
553024@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Net driver module dependencies on PHY driver modules
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:34:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEC58F5.2030905@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256989326.3136.284.camel@localhost>
Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
>
I encountered the same issue with Karmic and worked around it by
building in all of the phylib modules, e.g., CONFIG_BROADCOM_PHY=y. I
agree that its not the best long term solution.
rtg
--
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
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2009-10-31 11:42 Net driver module dependencies on PHY driver modules Ben Hutchings
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