From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Daney Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mdio-octeon: Drop obsolete Kconfig advice Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:20:48 -0700 Message-ID: <56154660.3070608@caviumnetworks.com> References: <20151007102638.335e9762@endymion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Florian Fainelli , Sunil Goutham , Radha Mohan Chintakuntla , David Daney , "David S. Miller" To: Jean Delvare Return-path: Received: from mail-bn1bn0100.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.110.100]:25776 "EHLO na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754275AbbJGQUz (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:20:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151007102638.335e9762@endymion.delvare> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/07/2015 01:26 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > "Y" was the right answer for MDIO_OCTEON when this option was only > available on CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC. But now that the option is visible on > all (64-bit) systems, this piece of advice no longer makes sense. This > helper module is selected automatically by drivers which need it > anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare > Fixes: a6d6786452 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both ThunderX and Octeon") > Cc: Florian Fainelli > Cc: Sunil Goutham > Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla > Cc: David Daney > Cc: David S. Miller Jean, good catch: Acked-by: David Daney > --- > drivers/net/phy/Kconfig | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > --- linux-4.3-rc4.orig/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig 2015-09-20 23:32:34.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-4.3-rc4/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig 2015-10-07 10:18:46.260452322 +0200 > @@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ config MDIO_OCTEON > busses. It is required by the Octeon and ThunderX ethernet device > drivers. > > - If in doubt, say Y. > - > config MDIO_SUN4I > tristate "Allwinner sun4i MDIO interface support" > depends on ARCH_SUNXI > >