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

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Message-Id: <20100402.143123.230371935.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:31:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:05:27 +0100

> 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>

Applied.
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