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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2010-04-02 01:05:27 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-02 14:30:39 -0700
commit8626d3b4328061f5b82b11ae1d6918a0c3602f42 (patch)
treebe2b509a0d47903ff2ac1d10255a760ade82daca /drivers/net/phy
parent9092c658bab215b2752fa59d2a36c05b74d1e9e9 (diff)
phylib: Support phy module autoloading
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@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index db1794546c5..1a99bb24410 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_scan_fixups);
struct phy_device* phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id)
{
struct phy_device *dev;
+
/* We allocate the device, and initialize the
* default values */
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -179,6 +180,17 @@ struct phy_device* phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id)
mutex_init(&dev->lock);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&dev->state_queue, phy_state_machine);
+ /* Request the appropriate module unconditionally; don't
+ bother trying to do so only if it isn't already loaded,
+ because that gets complicated. A hotplug event would have
+ done an unconditional modprobe anyway.
+ We don't do normal hotplug because it won't work for MDIO
+ -- because it relies on the device staying around for long
+ enough for the driver to get loaded. With MDIO, the NIC
+ driver will get bored and give up as soon as it finds that
+ there's no driver _already_ loaded. */
+ request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT, MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id));
+
return dev;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_create);