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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 12 |
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); |