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.
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Ben Hutchings
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