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/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html