netdev - Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver

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Date:	Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	felix@...edded-sol.com, mcarlson@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:53:59 +0100

> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Felix Radensky <felix@...edded-sol.com>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:52:54 +0200
>> 
>> > Yes, moving CONFIG_TIGON3 right after CONFIG_PHYLIB in
>> > drivers/net/Makefile fixes the problem for me.
>> 
>> Thanks for testing.
>> 
>> We really need to fix this generically.
>> 
>> Does anyone think that moving the MDIO/MII/PHY layer objects
>> to the top of drivers/net/Makefile will break anything?
>> 
>> If not, that's what we should do I think.
> 
> Only the phylib drivers actually need to be moved to fix the
> initialisation order, but moving the others shouldn't hurt.

Ok, I'm adding the following to net-2.6 to resolve this and
will queue it up for -stable too.

Thanks everyone.

net: Link in PHY drivers before others.

We need PHY drivers to initialize in a static kernel before
the MAC drivers that use them.  So link them in first.

Based upon a report by Felix Radensky.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/Makefile |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/Makefile b/drivers/net/Makefile
index d866b8c..48d82e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/net/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Makefile for the Linux network (ethercard) device drivers.
 #
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_MII) += mii.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO) += mdio.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PHYLIB) += phy/
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_TI_DAVINCI_EMAC) += davinci_emac.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_E1000) += e1000/
@@ -100,10 +104,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SH_ETH) += sh_eth.o
 # end link order section
 #
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_MII) += mii.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_MDIO) += mdio.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_PHYLIB) += phy/
-
 obj-$(CONFIG_SUNDANCE) += sundance.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAMACHI) += hamachi.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NET) += Space.o loopback.o
-- 
1.6.4.4

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