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Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:35:29 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: ABuPgj6G8jlB Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:34:48 +0100 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Guenter Roeck" , "Daniel Golle" , "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: "Andrew Lunn" , "Vladimir Oltean" , "David S . Miller" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Jakub Kicinski" , "Paolo Abeni" , Netdev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <306e79fb-f3ee-434e-a90e-547e97d2a5aa@roeck-us.net> References: <20260216105522.2382373-1-arnd@kernel.org> <306e79fb-f3ee-434e-a90e-547e97d2a5aa@roeck-us.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: MxL862xx: don't force-enable MAXLINEAR_GPHY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, at 16:17, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 2/16/26 04:15, Daniel Golle wrote: > > Technically, with "select MAXLINEAR_GPHY", NET_DSA_MXL862 should depend > on "depends on HWMON || HWMON=n". That would prevent NET_DSA_MXL862=y > and with it MAXLINEAR_GPHY=y. > > Maybe it is time to implement dummy functions for hwmon API calls > to avoid all this. I had considered this when I found the build failure, but I think removing the 'select' here is much better: this simplifies the dependencies, and allows a valid configuration with hwmon and gphy support in a loadable module that would otherwise be impossible. Arnd