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Commit 19938baf authored by Jian-Hong Pan's avatar Jian-Hong Pan Committed by David S. Miller
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net: bcmgenet: Add mdio-bcm-unimac soft dependency

The Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus from mdio-bcm-unimac module comes too late.
So, GENET cannot find the ethernet PHY on UniMAC MDIO bus. This leads
GENET fail to attach the PHY as following log:

bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet: GENET 5.0 EPHY: 0x0000
...
could not attach to PHY
bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet eth0: failed to connect to PHY
uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: no DMA platform data
libphy: bcmgenet MII bus: probed
...
unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus

It is not just coming too late, there is also no way for the module
loader to figure out the dependency between GENET and its MDIO bus
driver unless we provide this MODULE_SOFTDEP hint.

This patch adds the soft dependency to load mdio-bcm-unimac module
before genet module to fix this issue.

Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213485


Fixes: 9a4e7969 ("net: bcmgenet: utilize generic Broadcom UniMAC MDIO controller driver")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJian-Hong Pan <jhp@endlessos.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c305b9e6
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