On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 05:23:49PM +0100, Dimitri Fedrau wrote: > Am Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 05:39:25AM -0800 schrieb Guenter Roeck: > > 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. > > > > > If using "#if IS_ENABLED(HWMON)" do I have to add the dependency in > the KConfig file ? When looking at other PHY drivers, they do. Please follow what other drivers do. Its easy to break the build, resulting is undefined symbols. What we have now works. Andrew