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>
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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
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig
index 31fb76ee9d82..a1246e89aad4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ config IXGBE
tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support"
depends on PCI
select MDIO
- select MDIO_DEVICE
+ select PHYLIB
imply PTP_1588_CLOCK
---help---
This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of
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