netdev - Re: ixgbe / mdio dependancy error

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Date:   Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:42:21 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Steve Douthit <stephend@...icom-usa.com>,
        "jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ixgbe / mdio dependancy error

On 1/2/19 3:30 PM, Steve Douthit wrote:
>> This is because PHYLIB=m which forces MDIO_BUS=m.  If you have IXGBE=y,
>> then PHYLIB and MDIO_BUS can't be modules.  Working on a patch to
>> correct the issue.
> 
> There was a review comment to select MDIO_DEVICE instead of PHYLIB.
> PHYLIB seems correct to me now that I'm looking at this again though.  I
> came up empty looking for any other drivers that select MDIO_DEVICE.
> 
> The objection was that DSA devices wouldn't need the PHYLIB API, so why
> force it to be built-in.  NET_DSA selects PHYLINK which selects PHYLIB.
> I think we're ok going back to select PHYLIB if that was the only
> problem.

Apologies if this was a slightly misguided recommendation, I have to
admit, I did not consider a case where ixgbe would not be modular while
everything else it would now depend on is.

There is a similar pattern with any driver that e.g: has a HWMON
capability in that you must add something like:

depends on !FOO=y && DEPS=m or something like that.
-- 
Florian