From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: allow modular build Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:54:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20160104.215459.1264934689312091785.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4109142.02mezJXbJM@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Igal.Liberman@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: arnd@arndb.de Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:50767 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753842AbcAECzB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 21:55:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4109142.02mezJXbJM@wuerfel> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:55:24 +0100 > ARM allmodconfig fails because of the addition of the FMAN driver: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `dtsec_restart_autoneg': > binder.c:(.text+0x173328): undefined reference to `mdiobus_read' > binder.c:(.text+0x173348): undefined reference to `mdiobus_write' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `dtsec_config': > binder.c:(.text+0x173d24): undefined reference to `of_phy_find_device' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `init_phy': > binder.c:(.text+0x1763b0): undefined reference to `of_phy_connect' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `stop': > binder.c:(.text+0x176014): undefined reference to `phy_stop' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `start': > binder.c:(.text+0x176078): undefined reference to `phy_start' > > The reason is that the driver uses PHYLIB, but that is a loadable > module here, and fman itself is built-in. > > This patch makes it possible to configure fman as a module as well > so we don't change the status of PHYLIB in an allmodconfig kernel, > and it adds a 'select PHYLIB' statement to ensure that phylib is > always built-in when fman is. > > The driver uses "builtin_platform_driver(fman_driver);", which means > it cannot be unloaded, but it's still possible to have it as a loadable > module that gets loaded once and never removed. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Fixes: 5adae51a64b8 ("fsl/fman: Add FMan MURAM support") Applied, sorry I didn't catch this but nobody else was even attempting to review that huge patch series so I did the best that I could... :-/