From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA08B1DDD1; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1722005367; cv=none; b=VDUyl9JXeGYQdLr9qLf1Dgkw5XzX3F1hn284bMwk9FEm2GBzUhu8RI0967Ku/1M2LBUHPtFv/dkbmEbBPEwXFB8i4CoXvjOBatgBbN0U4WW3DCuA2sg0/yY56elExY3FY7nwBxBIEaaCE7/4tG6DXEJekoC++s/baAAQh6EJCjU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1722005367; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4GFJZLMrAdY9KWRAf4UVz2WdvnaCeqnj6naoNa1goLY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dXc4o1E2+ad4eSVxiY73EBt2FBrNc8Ram58d3Jxlb6UJQz5kDUqp7be39E+UbfguImPNix/rjzCXN2wZibTjFvmN/0fix+ltLvNmOZrknJoAJmTnQdMOVEh6O+HurncxA2e50hxP/3ISTLXQFCoOMTwTBrdN44lrHr8vLF9/L2U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ol7buWOr; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ol7buWOr" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B97F3C32782; Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:49:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1722005367; bh=4GFJZLMrAdY9KWRAf4UVz2WdvnaCeqnj6naoNa1goLY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ol7buWOrLpU7zsLZL5HED/iQ1+OTqaGj6NcZObwkSHaI04bIKuWADgO1fmz1bUYP0 /CvfQ3N3ACd4Jx0BJDHVplLx82PJif45vq1Lq0DSIdp4QpCEJ71U9BvlQTD0WzBDNA kJoegBuDLB5x8JZjvPPdHE8OyF928ijyyq/BOOG4TlDmsquvpJYQRDtclTHgiEI+3H bu6AEQipX5UMJ9ynh7uLlvd3gNZAAYa1ovU4w0+z8K+2Ro1U9QrKsxEztRrBzdG6oM K8rBrqq1SogyAQhv1yRussROm/V7avvWKERS+FEWjv9p2CsiUu5OeQl96/AdM00ewH J/78JZMcVRZNg== Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:49:25 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, lucas.demarchi@intel.com, mcgrof@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, woojung.huh@microchip.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: usb: lan78xx: add weak dependency with micrel phy module Message-ID: <20240726074925.1c7df571@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <8a267e73-1acc-480f-a9b3-6c4517ba317a@lunn.ch> References: <20240724145458.440023-1-jtornosm@redhat.com> <20240724161020.442958-1-jtornosm@redhat.com> <8a267e73-1acc-480f-a9b3-6c4517ba317a@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:57:05 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > Maybe a better solution is to first build an initramfs with > everything, plus the kitchen sink. Boot it, and then look at what has > been loaded in order to get the rootfs mounted. Then update the > initramfs with just what is needed? That should be pretty generic, > with throw out networking ig NFS root is not used, just load JFFS2 and > a NAND driver if it was used for the rootfs, etc. Sorry for a dumb question from the audience but how does this work for PCI devices? We don't worry about what drivers may be needed because there's no "fallback / generic" driver? For MDIO are the ID registers too complicated to expose to user space and let it match the drivers using modinfo (avoiding the need to boot a kitchen sink kernel)?