This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: mvmdio: add select PHYLIB
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mvmdio-add-select-phylib.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 474555434b7b6d8af925a7b3f757d67868ac523a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:18:56 +0000
Subject: net: mvmdio: add select PHYLIB
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2e0cbf2cc2c9371f0aa198857d799175ffe231a6 ]
The mvmdio driver uses the phylib API, so it should select the PHYLIB
symbol, otherwise, a build with mvmdio (but without mvneta) fails to
build with undefined symbols such as mdiobus_unregister, mdiobus_free,
etc.
The mvneta driver does not use the phylib API directly, so it does not
need to select PHYLIB. It already selects the mvmdio driver anyway.
Historically, this problem is due to the fact that the PHY handling
was originally part of mvneta, and was later moved to a separate
driver, without updating the Kconfig select statements
accordingly. And since there was no functional reason to use mvmdio
without mvneta, this case was not tested.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ config MV643XX_ETH
config MVMDIO
tristate "Marvell MDIO interface support"
+ select PHYLIB
---help---
This driver supports the MDIO interface found in the network
interface units of the Marvell EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion5x,
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@ config MVMDIO
config MVNETA
tristate "Marvell Armada 370/XP network interface support"
depends on MACH_ARMADA_370_XP
- select PHYLIB
select MVMDIO
---help---
This driver supports the network interface units in the
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/net-mvmdio-add-select-phylib.patch
queue-3.8/net-mvneta-fix-improper-tx-queue-usage-in-mvneta_tx.patch
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