The mv643xx_eth driver can be loaded as a platform device, as is done by
various Orion (ARM) based devices.  The driver needs to define a module
alias for the platform driver so udev will load it automatically.
Tested with Debian on a QNAP TS-209.

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--- a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -2104,6 +2104,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR( "Rabeeh Khoury, Assaf Hoffman, Matthew Dharm, Manish Lachwani"
                " and Dale Farnsworth");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Ethernet driver for Marvell MV643XX");
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mv643xx_eth");
 
 /*
  * The second part is the low level driver of the gigE ethernet ports.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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