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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: freescale: select CONFIG_FIXED_PHY where needed
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 13:24:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200509132427.3d2979d8@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200509120505.109218-1-arnd@arndb.de>

On Sat,  9 May 2020 14:04:52 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I ran into a randconfig build failure with CONFIG_FIXED_PHY=m
> and CONFIG_GIANFAR=y:
> 
> x86_64-linux-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.o:(.rodata+0x418): undefined reference to `fixed_phy_change_carrier'
> 
> It seems the same thing can happen with dpaa and ucc_geth, so change
> all three to do an explicit 'select FIXED_PHY'.
> 
> The fixed-phy driver actually has an alternative stub function that
> theoretically allows building network drivers when fixed-phy is
> disabled, but I don't see how that would help here, as the drivers
> presumably would not work then.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> +	select FIXED_PHY

I think FIXED_PHY needs to be optional, depends on what the board has
connected to the MAC it may not be needed, right PHY folks? We probably
need the

    depends on FIXED_PHY || !FIXED_PHY

dance.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-09 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-09 12:04 [PATCH] net: freescale: select CONFIG_FIXED_PHY where needed Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-09 20:24 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-05-09 21:48   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-09 22:04     ` Florian Fainelli
2020-05-09 22:52       ` Jakub Kicinski

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