Need to load broadcom kernel module before loading tg3 driver

[Jerone Young]

What is the plan on how this will be resolved for Karmic ? 

Seems the correct solution will require some upstream input, that may
take to long to make the Karmic cut off.

			Thanks,
				Jerone

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:37 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:27 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 
> > The real problem is that the MII modules, while they all have some kind 
> > of device signature, require the PCI module to be loaded in order to 
> > extract the MII signature.
> > 
> This is why the kernel has subsystems ;-)
> 
> You should have an MII host driver, loaded when MIIish PCI devices are
> detected.  That should then create an MII subsystem with kobjects which
> the underlying device signatures.
> 
> And then the actual drivers would be MII subsystem drivers, matching
> mii:someinfo not pci:someinfo
> 
> > Alternatively, it seems like the PCI module could dynamically load it's 
> > MII phylib module before registering with phylib. After all, its not 
> > like it doesn't _know_ which module is providing MII support.
> > 
> Couldn't it just "depends" it?
> 
> Scott