netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] net: devlink: turn devlink into a built-in

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Date:   Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:46:43 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] net: devlink: turn devlink into a
 built-in

Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:07:52PM CET, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com wrote:
>Being able to build devlink as a module causes growing pains.
>First all drivers had to add a meta dependency to make sure
>they are not built in when devlink is built as a module.  Now
>we are struggling to invoke ethtool compat code reliably.
>
>Make devlink code built-in, users can still not build it at
>all but the dynamically loadable module option is removed.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
>Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>