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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk,
	shawn.guo@linaro.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] net: phy: prevent linking breakage
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:21:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A5BA86.3070609@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130528.130920.1604291112518863799.davem@davemloft.net>

Hi,

On 28/05/2013 22:09, David Miller wrote:
>
> This is the wrong way to go about this.
>
> If the arch code absolutely requires CONFIG_PHYLIB=y then express that
> dependency in the arch Kconfig.  The arch code in question should not
> be compiled at all if CONFIG_PHYLIB has an incompatible setting.
But that is making it impossible to compile a kernel without any network
stack for those platforms or we are going back to either enclosing the
calls to phy_register_fixup{,_for_uid,_for_id} with #ifdef CONFIG_PHYLIB
or if(IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_PHYLIB)). And as you can see, it is quite error
prone and is done only done for 2 platforms on a total of 6. I believe
fixing that in phy.h is more foolproof.

Regards,

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-28 11:43 [PATCHv2 0/3] net: phy: prevent linking breakage Alexandre Belloni
2013-05-28 11:43 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] " Alexandre Belloni
2013-05-28 20:09   ` David Miller
2013-05-29  8:21     ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2013-05-30  9:42       ` David Miller
2013-06-04 15:07         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-04 15:36           ` Florian Fainelli
2013-06-04 16:01             ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-04 16:09               ` Florian Fainelli
2013-06-04 17:17                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-06-05  9:23                 ` Alexandre Belloni
2013-06-05 11:21                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-28 11:43 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] arm: mxs: don't check for CONFIG_PHYLIB as builtin Alexandre Belloni
2013-05-28 11:43 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] arm: imx: " Alexandre Belloni

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