From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: Don't allow core of phylib to build as a module Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:32:15 -0500 Message-ID: <20080602163215.GA3400@loki.buserror.net> References: <484419EE.5040503@garzik.org> <1E4EB64C-0618-497E-AABC-74EB7D74B97F@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org To: Kumar Gala Return-path: Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:60292 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753387AbYFBQca (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:32:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1E4EB64C-0618-497E-AABC-74EB7D74B97F@kernel.crashing.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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