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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support
 from PHYs
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 01:08:12 +0100
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> > Introduce a new configuration symbol: MDIO_DEVICE which allows building
> > the MDIO devices and bus code, without pulling in the entire Ethernet
> > PHY library and devices code.
> > 
> > PHYLIB nows select MDIO_DEVICE and the relevant Makefile files are
> > updated to reflect that.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> 
> Andrew, Russell, does that seem sensible to you, shall I re-submit this
> as a proper patch?

Hi Florian

It does make sense, given that we have some MDIO busses not used for
networking.

	Andrew