diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/076-net-phy-export-fixed_phy_register.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/076-net-phy-export-fixed_phy_register.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..939016c2e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/076-net-phy-export-fixed_phy_register.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 37e9a6904520b525b542ecd67201164d06fdb95a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:03:26 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: export fixed_phy_register()
+
+When building the bcmgenet driver as module, I get:
+
+ERROR: "fixed_phy_register" [drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/genet.ko] undefined!
+
+commit b0ba512e225d72 ("net: bcmgenet: enable driver to work without device
+tree") which added a call to fixed_phy_register. But fixed_phy_register
+needs to be exported if used from a module.
+
+Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
+Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+---
+ drivers/net/phy/fixed.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
++++ b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
+@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ struct phy_device *fixed_phy_register(un
+ 
+ 	return phy;
+ }
++EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fixed_phy_register);
+ 
+ static int __init fixed_mdio_bus_init(void)
+ {