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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:35:33 +0200
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "Radu Pirea (NXP OSS)" <radu-nicolae.pirea@....nxp.com>,
hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net,
edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
richardcochran@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v1 2/5] net: phy: remove MACSEC guard
2023-08-11, 18:59:57 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 06:32:46PM +0300, Radu Pirea (NXP OSS) wrote:
> > Allow the phy driver to build the MACSEC support even if
> > CONFIG_MACSEC=N.
>
> What is missing from this commit message is an answer to the question
> 'Why?'
The same question applies to patch #1. Why would we need a dummy
implementation of macsec_pn_wrapped when !CONFIG_MACSEC?
I guess it's to avoid conditional compilation of
drivers/net/phy/nxp-c45-tja11xx-macsec.c and a few ifdefs in the main
driver.
--
Sabrina
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