Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 08/13] net: phy: marvell-88q2xxx: add support for temperature sensor

[Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/1/24 05:27, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HWMON
> >
> > HWMON is tristate, so this may be problematic if the driver is built
> > into the kernel and hwmon is built as module.
>
> There should be Kconfig in addition to this, e.g.
>
> config MAXLINEAR_GPHY
>          tristate "Maxlinear Ethernet PHYs"
>          select POLYNOMIAL if HWMON
>          depends on HWMON || HWMON=n
>          help
>            Support for the Maxlinear GPY115, GPY211, GPY212, GPY215,
>            GPY241, GPY245 PHYs.
>
> So its forced to being built in, or not built at all.

Even then it should be "#if IS_ENABLED(HWMON)" in the code.

Thanks,
Guenter