Re: [PATCH] [net-next] ARM: orion: fix PHYLIB dependency

On 02/09/2017 09:20 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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Adding a 'select' statement to something as broad as NETDEVICES sounds
really bad, it has a significant risk of introducing dependency loops
and may be confusing if you want to build a multiplatform config without
networking support (note that NETDEVICES in turn depends on NET, which
can also be disabled).

O.K, so overall it is not simple. So lets drop my idea.
 

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One possibility would be to have a special Kconfig symbol that controls
mdiobus_register_board_info() being present and have that symbol
force PHYLIB to never be "=m". Then we can either have no networking
support and no phylib, turning mdiobus_register_board_info() into a
stub, or we have the function built-in and reachable from the board
code.

FYI: Florian is working on splitting MDIO out of PHYLIB. There will be
two separate symbols, so it will be possible to have MDIO without
PHYLIB. When this happens, i expect mdiobus_register_board_info() will
be in the MDIO part, not PHYLIB.

Yes that would be the plan.
-- 
Florian