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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:32:15 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: Don't allow core of phylib to build as a module
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:25:14AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> The core provides functions like phy_read/phy_write.  Andy has recently 
> introduced board level workaround/fixups.  The problem is these 
> workarounds tend to use phy_read/phy_write and the board/platform code is 
> not built as modules.

So why not have those platforms select PHYLIB?

-Scott