From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94C0A4AED1; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1722200290; cv=none; b=PM/qnkTPeoSblXttTx9SsXS7+MeRWkBj+IHIwHASS6S0gLfxqC04rLIfs8rL62HuTUFNPBUjggrZB1rMXqErVgXIe78AT/Z0uD0H2LHMdwJ8Ovx/zCHij0EmXgR24NEqAas2SJb6XadKNgPT7hnbu2n8yUQxUWqMLiPQX5gZgpY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1722200290; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZD8HK/9QISpSosRmduEahB8I4TxDVO6c8N+zsQ5fN7w=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=mUMF5VZGPrMtEHUUN/09KjO3t/XgQvoiRq+rJqYxF1OTIRZk/6XwP0zCqO36Gh1SuJxV/62AI357jsu0F8hhHh9v9FdHp53npRqlsQcUNQsJ8gpmqpenIKxcvV6fH98E17j4qnT24zN5ntCTB+dr7w7X+XXZqmkCSbrHVvShwfI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=wYAS98tY; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="wYAS98tY" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=9u9snN5EkPNEO5OsIZgqACEztkvPLKPsDbbMmHPqzo0=; b=wYAS98tY6w2jYjeeQsTlpPBqfM Dyc25M+Tz1IqgiisIxbYtWidGGUQL5JpnM6XZhmbbFeu+E+/0pbsYgPkK3BBgkFVJ2uZ+mbPmdBo8 aNgUt3XzsAgu3jpLGiwqKGqVK3S0hgrryW87f8ce7EDO/Ywx12i5nsJbdEe0T/7ShoZY=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1sYAxo-003PKI-4A; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:57:56 +0200 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:57:56 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Dragan Simic Cc: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kuba@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, lucas.demarchi@intel.com, masahiroy@kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, woojung.huh@microchip.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: usb: lan78xx: add weak dependency with micrel phy module Message-ID: <3a6ef66a-e98f-44df-9fef-3b26bede4c07@lunn.ch> References: <20240726121530.193547-1-jtornosm@redhat.com> <931b582808f237aa3746c5b0a96b3665@manjaro.org> <3e895811-ad23-4687-b440-5375ad2af2ff@lunn.ch> <3a3f49b5-45b2-4999-a364-60d035bbd11f@lunn.ch> <98d200777d62dc9b447557b2758613e5@manjaro.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98d200777d62dc9b447557b2758613e5@manjaro.org> > In other words, this patch doesn't subtract anything. Instead, it just > adds a weakdep link between the lan78xx and micrel modules, so the kernel > itself can report that dependency, which may actually result in one more > PHY driver added to a generated initial ramdisk. So at the moment, does the initramfs contain all PHY modules? I guess it does, because you have no knowledge which are actually needed. And this does not help you in any way, as you said, it does not subtract anything. So to me, this is pointless. Andrew