netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: improve phylink_sfp_config

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Message-ID: <20241115223021.6asyclq7bhbqxfjw@skbuf>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:30:21 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Tristram Ha <tristram.ha@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylink: improve phylink_sfp_config_phy()
 error message with empty supported

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 06:51:00PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> We want some Makefile support for extracting the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
> for modules which are not enabled, and some way to create a
> modules.disabled.alias which module loading can look at and issue a
> warning.

Sadly, for me, automatically extracting MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() from files
which are not compiled in C is science fiction.

Also, I need to sleep on the idea that creating an association between
device and missing driver might be useful kernel-wide. I'm not prepared
to handle the possibility where we make that happen, but it gets push
back and dropped.