Re: [PATCH 2/5] phy: iproc-mdio: Initial iProc MDC/MDIO support

[Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>]

On 5/21/2015 12:41 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 18:23 -0700, Ray Jui wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/phy/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/phy/Kconfig
>>  
>> +config PHY_IPROC_MDIO
>> +	bool "Broadcom iProc MDC/MDIO driver"
>> +	depends on ARCH_BCM_IPROC
>> +	default ARCH_BCM_IPROC
>> +	help
>> +	  Enable this to support the iProc generic MDC/MDIO interface found
>> +	  in various iProc based SoCs. The generic MDC/MDIO interface can be
>> +	  used to communicate with various types of Serdes/PHYs including
>> +	  Ethernet, PCIe, USB, and etc.
>> +
>> +	  If unsure, say N.
> 
>> --- a/drivers/phy/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/phy/Makefile
> 
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_PHY_IPROC_MDIO)		+= phy-iproc-mdio.o
> 
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-iproc-mdio.c
> 
>> +#include <linux/module.h>
> 
>> +static int __init iproc_mdio_init(void)
>> +{
>> +	return platform_driver_register(&iproc_mdio_driver);
>> +}
>> +arch_initcall_sync(iproc_mdio_init);
>> +
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom iPROC MDC/MDIO driver");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> 
> I guess phy-iproc-mdio.o is intended to be built-in only. If that's
> correct the above three MODULE_ macros (and, probably, the include of
> linux/module.h) can safely be dropped.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Paul Bolle
> 

I think we had previous discussions on this for the pinctrl patches.
People including Linus and me think this is good to be there at least
for information purpose.

I do not want to go over the same argument again. I'll leave this to the
subsystem maintainer. If the subsystem maintainer wants this out, I can
take it out. Otherwise, I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks,

Ray