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