[PATCH] [POWERPC] 85xx: MPC85xx MDS - Unconditionally select PHYLIB for board fixups
Jeff Garzik
jeff at garzik.org
Sat Jun 7 03:48:44 EST 2008
Kumar Gala wrote:
> The MPC85xx MDS board requires some board level tweaks of the PHYs that
> either the eTSEC (gianfar) or UCC ethernet controllers are connected to.
>
> Its possible to build the phylib as a module, however this breaks the
> board level fix ups because phy_read and phy_write are not available
> if we build as a module.
>
> So we unconditionally select PHYLIB to ensure its built into the kernel
> if we are building in MPC85xx MDS support. This was determined to be
> the easiest soultion even though it prevents the user from removing
> PHYLIB support if they decide they don't want it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> will go via the powerpc.git tree for 2.6.26.
>
> - k
>
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> index 7ff29d5..ecbe580 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ config MPC85xx_MDS
> bool "Freescale MPC85xx MDS"
> select DEFAULT_UIMAGE
> select QUICC_ENGINE
> + select PHYLIB
> help
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