phylib: Support phy module autoloading

[net-next-2.6.git] / drivers / net / phy / phy_device.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index db1794546c5651e827db0941f6f9b659e48e3d50..1a99bb2441064c5dae8014628bd718d033e752e6 100644 (file)
--- 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);