From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:51:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20100401.193810.172601735.davem@davemloft.net> <1270206327.3101.2436.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk To: David Woodhouse Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:48257 "EHLO mail-ww0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755896Ab0DBRv5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:51:57 -0400 Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so1502015wwb.19 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:51:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1270206327.3101.2436.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:05 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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 > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Neat! Acked-by: Andy Fleming