* Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> [210205 15:04]:
> On 05/02/2021 16:46, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > That will potentially break things too as the configs now expect
> > it to be selected :) Looks like that got changed with commit
> > f0791b92d2b6 ("net: ks8851: Select PHYLIB and MICREL_PHY in
> > Kconfig").
>
> Yah. It's really has to be "depends on".
Yeah that's almost always better than select for sure.
> > So why can't we do similar patches to select MICREL_PHY for
> > the other non-ks8851 configurations in drivers/net/ethernet
> > Kconfig files as needed?
>
> because there is no dependency between Ethernet controller (CPSW) and
> Ethernet PHY - any MII capable PHY can be used with CPSW.
OK thanks for the info.
Regards,
Tony
