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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jochen@scram.de
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix fs_enet module build
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:09:26 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113.210926.97725854.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4739EDA8.6020800@scram.de>

From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:32:08 +0100

> If fs_enet is build as module, on PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING platforms
> mii-fec/mii-bitbang should be build as module, as well. On other
> platforms, mii-fec/mii-bitbang must be included into the main module.
> Otherwise some symbols remain undefined. Additionally, fs_enet uses
> libphy, so add a select PHYLIB.
> 
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST 5 modules
> ERROR: "fs_scc_ops" [drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>

This is truly ugly and creates an unnecessarily hard to
maintain and complex driver.

Please find a way to fix this for real, so that the
PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING ifdef is not necessary at all and
things get built modular or not naturally as we handle
things for other cases like this.

THanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 18:32 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix fs_enet module build Jochen Friedrich
2007-11-14  5:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-14 11:59   ` Jochen Friedrich
2007-11-14 23:51     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-03 20:45 [PATCH] [POWERPC] " Jochen Friedrich
2007-11-05 16:19 ` Scott Wood

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