Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: Extend availability of PHY statistics

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:10:14 -0400 (EDT)

> Ugh, this breaks the allmodconfig build.
> 
> You can't move interfaces to drivers/net/phy/phy.c which are
> referenced in core networking like net/core/ethtool.c unless you make
> PHYLIB 'bool' only.
> 
> net/core/ethtool.o: In function `__ethtool_get_sset_count':
> ethtool.c:(.text+0x1cd8): undefined reference to `phy_ethtool_get_sset_count'
> net/core/ethtool.o: In function `dev_ethtool':
> (.text+0x5407): undefined reference to `phy_ethtool_get_strings'
> (.text+0x6869): undefined reference to `phy_ethtool_get_sset_count'
> (.text+0x69b3): undefined reference to `phy_ethtool_get_stats'
> 
> Please fix this somehow, thanks Florian.

I'm applying this temporary fix to net-next so that I can get work
down without having to revert all of your changes.

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[PATCH] phy: Temporary build fix after phylib changes.

Make PHYLIB boolean, because we reference phylib provided symbols now
from net/core/ethtool.c and therefore 'm' doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/phy/Kconfig | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
index edb8b9ab827f..7c5e8c1e9370 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ menuconfig MDIO_DEVICE
 
 config MDIO_BUS
 	tristate
-	default m if PHYLIB=m
 	default MDIO_DEVICE
 	help
 	  This internal symbol is used for link time dependencies and it
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ config PHYLINK
 	  autonegotiation modes.
 
 menuconfig PHYLIB
-	tristate "PHY Device support and infrastructure"
+	bool "PHY Device support and infrastructure"
 	depends on NETDEVICES
 	select MDIO_DEVICE
 	help
-- 
2.14.3