[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4447] add broadcom and libphy to get tg3 to work (#5567)

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 10 May 2012 15:36, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> --- drakx/trunk/kernel/list_modules.pm        2012-05-10 11:41:43 UTC (rev 4446)
>> +++ drakx/trunk/kernel/list_modules.pm        2012-05-10 12:39:16 UTC (rev 4447)
>> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
>>        qw(myri_sbus myri10ge netxen_nic ns83820 pch_gbe qla3xxx r8169 s2io
>> sfc sxg_nic),
>>        qw(sis190 sk98lin skge sky2 slicoss spidernet stmmac tehuti tg3
>> via-velocity virtio_net vxge yellowfin),
>>        qw(bcm5820 bcm5700), #- encrypted
>> +      qw(broadcom libphy), # needed to get tg3 working
>
> First we already had libphy.ko b/c it's a dep of other modules we have.
>
> Second, I think this is not enough and that we should include most of
> phy/*.ko* anyway.  Some other cards (using tg3 or another driver)
> would need another PHY sub driver.
>
> WDYT?

eg: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5476 might be similar