On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 13:39 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 10:48:02 -0800 > > > The new ability added to the driver to use mii_bus to handle MII > > related > > ioctls is causing compile issues when the driver is compiled into > > the > > kernel (i.e. not a module). > > > > The problem was in selecting MDIO_DEVICE instead of the preferred > > PHYLIB > > Kconfig option. The reason being that MDIO_DEVICE had a dependency > > on > > PHYLIB and would be compiled as a module when PHYLIB was a module, > > no > > matter whether ixgbe was compiled into the kernel. > > > > CC: Dave Jones <da...@codemonkey.org.uk> > > CC: Steve Douthit <steph...@silicom-usa.com> > > CC: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> > > --- > > v2: fixed up the Kconfig help section to include the clause 22/45 > > address information and also changed the IXGBE_MDIO config option > > to be > > dependent upon PHYLIB versus MDIO_BUS since that appears to be > > the > > common usage > > > > v3: Steve Douthit found a much simpler solution of changing the > > dependency from MDIO_DEVICE to PHYLIB, which is consistent with > > other > > Ethernet drivers > > Jeff, would you like me to apply this directly? > > Thanks.
Yes, please. It is the only fix I have for your net tree.
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