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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, jwboyer@gmail.com,
	mporter@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ibm emac: delete module references; phy.c only supported as built-in
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:57:53 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227.145753.1111293673513137413.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330372024-30974-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 19:47 [PATCH net-next] ibm emac: delete module references; phy.c only supported as built-in Paul Gortmaker
2012-02-27 19:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-27 19:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-02-27 20:49   ` Paul Gortmaker

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