From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:23:24 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20170207001112.1282-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20170207002143.GP27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, andrew@lunn.ch To: Russell King - ARM Linux Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:33891 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524AbdBGAX0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2017 19:23:26 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f195.google.com with SMTP id y143so7901526pfb.1 for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:23:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170207002143.GP27312@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/06/2017 04:21 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:11:12PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> Introduce a new configuration symbol: MDIO_DEVICE which allows building >> the MDIO devices and bus code, without pulling in the entire Ethernet >> PHY library and devices code. >> >> PHYLIB nows select MDIO_DEVICE and the relevant Makefile files are >> updated to reflect that. > > I think you've been a little too quick off the mark posting this - > see my points raised in reply to your RFC. This will cause problems > when built as a module, not least the missing MODULE_LICENSE()s. > Yes, good point, let me fix that. -- Florian