I'm handling a bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/553024> relating to tg3 using phylib and missing the broadcom module. There seem to be two general problems here: 1. PHY drivers are not auto-loaded 2. An initramfs builder cannot statically determine that a net device requires a PHY driver It seems to me that PHY drivers should have aliases based on MDIO PHY ids, and phylib should request_module() if no suitable driver is registered. This would solve (1) and go some way to solving (2). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou
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