netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading

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Message-ID: <o2k2acbd3e41004021051m75119350w2d5a372f5296a4a3@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:51:55 -0500
From:	Andy Fleming <afleming@...il.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:05 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> 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 <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Neat!

Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
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