Re: [PATCH] net: freescale: select CONFIG_FIXED_PHY where needed

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 9 May 2020 15:04:04 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 5/9/2020 2:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 10:24 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:  
> >>
> >> 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  
> > 
> > Unfortunately that does not work because it causes a circular dependency:
> > 
> > drivers/net/phy/Kconfig:415:error: recursive dependency detected!
> > drivers/net/phy/Kconfig:415: symbol FIXED_PHY depends on PHYLIB
> > drivers/net/phy/Kconfig:250: symbol PHYLIB is selected by FSL_PQ_MDIO
> > drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Kconfig:60: symbol FSL_PQ_MDIO is
> > selected by UCC_GETH
> > drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Kconfig:75: symbol UCC_GETH depends on FIXED_PHY

:(

> > I now checked what other drivers use the fixed-phy interface, and found
> > that all others do select FIXED_PHY except for these three, and they
> > are also the only ones using fixed_phy_change_carrier().
> > 
> > The fixed-phy driver is fairly small, so it probably won't harm too much
> > to use the select, but maybe I missed another option.  
> 
> select FIXED_PHY appears the correct choice here we could think about
> providing stubs if that is deemed useful, but in general these drivers
> do tend to have a functional dependency on the fixed PHY and MDIO bus
> subsystems.

The sad thing is - the stubs already exist, it seems we just can't
express the dependencies in Kconfig well enough to prevent driver 
to be built in when fixed_phy is a module. Anyway..

> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Applied to net, thank y'all!