netdev - Re: [PATCH] dsa: fix compile bug on s390

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Message-Id: <20081013.190014.239477645.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dsa: fix compile bug on s390

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:04:18 +0200

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> 
> git commit 45cec1bac0719c904bb5f4405c2937f7e715888c
> "dsa: Need to select PHYLIB." causes this build bug on s390:
> 
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_stop_interrupts':
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:631: undefined reference to `free_irq'
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:646: undefined reference to `enable_irq'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_start_interrupts':
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:601: undefined reference to `request_irq'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_interrupt':
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:528: undefined reference to `disable_irq_nosync'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_change':
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:674: undefined reference to `enable_irq'
> /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:692: undefined reference to `disable_irq'
> 
> PHYLIB has alread a depend on !S390, however select PHYLIB at DSA overrides
> that unfortunately. So add a depend on !S390 to DSA as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

Applied.

It's not pretty but the alternatives aren't any better.

I wonder if we should instead make PHYLIB a dependency here, but
that of course exposes implementation details to the user that
they shouldn't need to be concerned about when they want to
enable a certain feature.
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