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.
