From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:09:01 -0800 > Le 11/12/2014 11:22, David Miller a écrit : >> From: Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 >> 09:10:45 -0700 >> >>> Building with the attached random configuration file, >>> >>> ERROR: "fixed_phy_register" >>> [drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/genet.ko] undefined! >> >> Florian, I don't understand why FIXED_PHY is only selected in >> Kconfig if the driver is statically built into the kernel. >> >> That makes no sense at all, you should need that module regardless >> of how the driver itself is enabled. > > AFAIR this was introduced to silence a warning you reported: > > "I think you need to work on the Kconfig dependencies a little bit more. > I have BCMGENET specified as modular, which absolutely should work. Yet > Kconfig complains. > > warning: (BCMGENET) selects FIXED_PHY which has unmet direct > dependencies (NETDEVICES && PHYLIB=y)" > > but I agree, this makes no sense, we should select FIXED_PHY > unconditionnally, will send you patches tomorrow to fix that. What's really perplexing is that FIXED_PHY is only enable'able when PHYLIB=y. I think that's the core of the problems here. All of these drivers shouldn't lose fixed phy support simply because they, or PHYLIB itself, is built modular. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
