netdev - Re: [net v3] ixgbe: fix Kconfig when driver is not a module

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Date:   Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:02:42 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davej@...emonkey.org.uk, stephend@...icom-usa.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net v3] ixgbe: fix Kconfig when driver is not a module

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:47:09 -0800

> On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
>> Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2019 10:48:02 -0800
>> 
>> > The new ability added to the driver to use mii_bus to handle MII
>> > related
>> > ioctls is causing compile issues when the driver is compiled into
>> > the
>> > kernel (i.e. not a module).
>> > 
>> > The problem was in selecting MDIO_DEVICE instead of the preferred
>> > PHYLIB
>> > Kconfig option.  The reason being that MDIO_DEVICE had a dependency
>> > on
>> > PHYLIB and would be compiled as a module when PHYLIB was a module,
>> > no
>> > matter whether ixgbe was compiled into the kernel.
>> > 
>> > CC: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
>> > CC: Steve Douthit <stephend@...icom-usa.com>
>> > CC: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
>> > ---
>> > v2: fixed up the Kconfig help section to include the clause 22/45
>> >   address information and also changed the IXGBE_MDIO config option
>> > to be
>> >   dependent upon PHYLIB versus MDIO_BUS since that appears to be
>> > the
>> >   common usage
>> > 
>> > v3: Steve Douthit found a much simpler solution of changing the
>> >   dependency from MDIO_DEVICE to PHYLIB, which is consistent with
>> > other
>> >   Ethernet drivers
>> 
>> Jeff, would you like me to apply this directly?
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> Yes, please.  It is the only fix I have for your net tree.

Awesome, done.