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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:47:04 -0500

> The Makefile has it as "ibm_emac-y := mal.o core.o phy.o" so there is
> no way this can be built modular, so remove all references to module
> support.

That doesn't mean it's only buildable statically.

"ibm_emacs-y :=" is merely a way to tell make what objects go into ibm_emac.{o,ko}

IBM_EMAC is tristate