netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: broadcom: have drivers select DIMLIB as needed

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Date:   Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:21:23 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org>,
        Tal Gilboa <talgi@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: broadcom: have drivers select DIMLIB as
 needed



On 10/11/2019 9:03 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> 
> NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM is intended to control a kconfig menu only.
> It should not have anything to do with code generation.
> As such, it should not select DIMLIB for all drivers under
> NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM.  Instead each driver that needs DIMLIB should
> select it (being the symbols SYSTEMPORT, BNXT, and BCMGENET).
> 
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907021810220.13058@ramsan.of.borg/
> 
> Fixes: 4f75da3666c0 ("linux/dim: Move implementation to .c files")
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian