netdev - Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs

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Message-ID: <34f35da1-086a-0809-b962-7d0dbcf9df8d@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:01:27 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch,
        rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support
 from PHYs

On 01/30/2017 07:29 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Introduce a new configuration symbol: MDIO_DEVICE which allows building
> the MDIO devices and bus code, without pulling in the entire Ethernet
> PHY library and devices code.
> 
> PHYLIB nows select MDIO_DEVICE and the relevant Makefile files are
> updated to reflect that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Andrew, Russell, does that seem sensible to you, shall I re-submit this
as a proper patch?
-- 
Florian