Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: MxL862xx: don't force-enable MAXLINEAR_GPHY

[Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 08:20:41AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/16/26 07:34, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, at 16:17, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 2/16/26 04:15, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > > 
> > > Technically, with "select MAXLINEAR_GPHY", NET_DSA_MXL862 should depend
> > > on "depends on HWMON || HWMON=n". That would prevent NET_DSA_MXL862=y
> > > and with it MAXLINEAR_GPHY=y.
> > > 
> > > Maybe it is time to implement dummy functions for hwmon API calls
> > > to avoid all this.
> > 
> > I had considered this when I found the build failure, but
> > I think removing the 'select' here is much better: this
> > simplifies the dependencies, and allows a valid configuration
> > with hwmon and gphy support in a loadable module that would
> > otherwise be impossible.
> > 
> 
> Makes sense. I think I'll move forward with the dummy functions anyway
> because with that the #ifdefs in drivers are no longer necessary
> and the "depends on HWMON || HWMON=n" becomes optional.

Yes, that would be great and eliminate that whole class of obstacles
with some inline no-op stubs in the header.