netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] net: phy: prevent linking breakage

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Message-Id: <201306051321.00264.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:21:00 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	"shawn.guo" <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] net: phy: prevent linking breakage

On Wednesday 05 June 2013, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> However, it is becoming urgent for Atmel to get the fix in 3.10 so that
> they never get a kernel compilation that breaks.

I don't think it's urgent since this is only about rare configurations,
and not a regression. We can queue the patch "ARM: at91: Fix link
breakage when !CONFIG_PHYLIB" you just sent to fix this, but I
would not consider it a serious problem to have it only in 3.11.

	Arnd
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