Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 85xx: MPC85xx MDS - Unconditionally select PHYLIB for board fixups

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> The MPC85xx MDS board requires some board level tweaks of the PHYs that
> either the eTSEC (gianfar) or UCC ethernet controllers are connected to.
> 
> Its possible to build the phylib as a module, however this breaks the
> board level fix ups because phy_read and phy_write are not available
> if we build as a module.
> 
> So we unconditionally select PHYLIB to ensure its built into the kernel
> if we are building in MPC85xx MDS support.  This was determined to be
> the easiest soultion even though it prevents the user from removing
> PHYLIB support if they decide they don't want it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> will go via the powerpc.git tree for 2.6.26.
> 
> - k
> 
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> index 7ff29d5..ecbe580 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ config MPC85xx_MDS
>  	bool "Freescale MPC85xx MDS"
>  	select DEFAULT_UIMAGE
>  	select QUICC_ENGINE
> +	select PHYLIB
>  	help

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