netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: usb: lan78xx: add weak dependency with micrel phy module

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Message-ID: <3a3f49b5-45b2-4999-a364-60d035bbd11f@lunn.ch>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:45:32 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
Cc: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@...hat.com>,
	UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kuba@...nel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, lucas.demarchi@...el.com,
	masahiroy@...nel.org, mcgrof@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, woojung.huh@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: usb: lan78xx: add weak dependency with micrel phy
 module

> Basically, the way I see it, weakdeps are the right solution for the
> problem at hand, i.e. for the generation of the initial ramdisk with
> all the possible PHY driver modules.

Sorry, but i still don't see how this works.

Say you get this one patch merged. What then? You throw all other PHY
drivers which don't have a weakdep out of the initramfs? That
potentially breaks around 200 MAC drivers who need those PHYs you have
discarded.

	Andrew