From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ep8248e: Fix compile problem if !CONFIG_FS_ENET
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:13:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721161307.GC13185@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716215745.GA17093@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:57:45PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:47:23PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:39:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > If we don't enable FS_ENET we get build issues:
> > >
> > > arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o: In function `ep8248e_mdio_probe':
> > > arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx/ep8248e.c:129: undefined reference to `alloc_mdio_bitbang'
> > > arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx/ep8248e.c:143: undefined reference to `mdiobus_register'
> >
> > How is this possible? CONFIG_EP8248E selects CONFIG_MDIO_BITBANG.
>
> If CONFIG_PHYLIB=m however, that doesn't make any difference, because
> vmlinuz is trying to use a symbol which now lives in a module.
Yuck. If FOO selects BAR, and FOO is 'y', then BAR should be 'y', not 'm'.
If BAR depends on other symbols that are 'm', they should be changed to 'y'.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 13:39 [PATCH] powerpc/ep8248e: Fix compile problem if !CONFIG_FS_ENET Kumar Gala
2008-07-16 21:47 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-16 21:57 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-16 22:10 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-16 22:19 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-16 22:55 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-21 16:14 ` Scott Wood
2008-07-16 22:23 ` Kumar Gala
2008-07-21 16:13 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-07-16 22:01 ` Kumar Gala
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