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

- From: Florian Fainelli \<f.fainelli@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2017-02-10 17:50:53 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/02/4932090
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/02/4931108/t.md

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On 02/10/2017 12:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Florian Fainelli [ref] wrote:
>> On 02/09/2017 07:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I disabled CONFIG_NETDEVICES to force CONFIG_PHY not to be set here, and
>> I was not able to reproduce this, what am I missing?
> 
> In the ARMv5 allmodconfig build, this fails because CONFIG_PHY=m, and
> we can't call into it. You could use IS_BUILTIN instead of IS_ENABLED in
> the header as a oneline workaround, but I think that would be more confusing
> to real users that try to use CONFIG_PHY=m without realizing why they lose
> access to their switch.

I see, this patch should also help fixing this:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/726381/

-- 
Florian
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