Subject: Re: tg3 and Broadcom PHY driver

From: Felix Radensky <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:52:54 +0200

Hi, David
David Miller wrote:
> From: Felix Radensky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:53:15 +0200
>
>   
>> Hi, Matt
>>
>> Matt Carlson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:32:18PM -0700, Felix Radensky wrote:
>>>   
>>> Is the broadcom module also compiled into the kernel?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes.
>>     
>
> I bet this is all because the tg3 driver is linked into the kernel
> before the PHY layer and drivers subdirectory or something like that.
>
> Link order determines the order in which built-in initializations
> occur (within the same init type).
>   

Yes, moving CONFIG_TIGON3 right after CONFIG_PHYLIB in drivers/net/Makefile
fixes the problem for me.

Thanks a lot.

Felix.