linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:14:24 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:15:00 +0200 Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> TL;DR, we need to get rid of a helper routine (introduced so that to
> address review comments of v1), as it causes a depmod cycles when
> fwnode_/of_/acpi_mdio are built as modules.
> It can be done twofold:
> a. 3 commits, i.e:
>   Revert "net: mdiobus: Introduce fwnode_mdbiobus_register()"
>   Revert "net/fsl: switch to fwnode_mdiobus_register"
>   net: mvmdio: resign from fwnode_mdiobus_register
> b. Same diff but squashed.
> 
> Please let me know your preference, so that I can do it properly up front.

Not sure if Dave will notice this mid-thread question. It probably
doesn't matter as long as (1) doesn't introduce further transient 
build failures.