[PATCH] phylib: Don't allow core of phylib to build as a module

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 3 09:07:52 EST 2008


On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Andy Fleming wrote:
>> I'm partial to the select-it-if-you-need-it paradigm.
>
>
> AFAICS this can all be solved by the platform Kconfig ensuring that  
> phylib=y

I don't care for this as it means making sure each platform/board port  
gets it right.  I think we'd be better off with a small stub that is  
always built into the kernel for phy_read/phy_write, etc or the  
function pointer indirection mechanism.

- k



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