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Message-Id: <20071113.210926.97725854.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:09:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jochen@...am.de
Cc:	linuxppc-embedded@...abs.org, marcelo@...ck.org,
	scottwood@...escale.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix fs_enet module build

From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@...am.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:32:08 +0100

> If fs_enet is build as module, on PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING platforms
> mii-fec/mii-bitbang should be build as module, as well. On other
> platforms, mii-fec/mii-bitbang must be included into the main module.
> Otherwise some symbols remain undefined. Additionally, fs_enet uses
> libphy, so add a select PHYLIB.
> 
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST 5 modules
> ERROR: "fs_scc_ops" [drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@...am.de>

This is truly ugly and creates an unnecessarily hard to
maintain and complex driver.

Please find a way to fix this for real, so that the
PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING ifdef is not necessary at all and
things get built modular or not naturally as we handle
things for other cases like this.

THanks.
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