netdev - Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver

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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:53:59 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	felix@...edded-sol.com, mcarlson@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver

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.

Ben.

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