netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: make mdio consumer / device layer a separate module

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Message-ID: <7ba9aaf5-5391-43fd-a01f-c019b783751d@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 12:20:45 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: make mdio consumer / device layer a
 separate module

On 5/15/25 10:11 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> After having factored out the provider part from mdio_bus.c, we can
> make the mdio consumer / device layer a separate module. This also
> allows to remove Kconfig symbol MDIO_DEVICE.
> The module init / exit functions from mdio_bus.c no longer have to be
> called from phy_device.c. The link order defined in
> drivers/net/phy/Makefile ensures that init / exit functions are called
> in the right order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Makes sense to me, and I think the best path is merge it now and allow
the bot to crunch some possible weird/problematic conf I could not foresee.

/P