[RFC PATCH 08/15] ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY

Roger Quadros rogerq at ti.com
Fri Feb 7 05:44:13 EST 2014


On 02/07/2014 12:39 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 07 February 2014 12:33:38 Roger Quadros wrote:
>>
>> This means we need to make CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM depend on CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY or
>> select it.
>>
>> OR
>>
>> Generic PHY layer must be fixed so that the API's are always built in.
>>
>> What is the better option? I believe making the PHY API's always built in is the better option.
>>
> 
> CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM should do
> 
> 	"depends on CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY || !CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY"
> 
> which is the Kconfig way of saying that if CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is a module,
> CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM needs to be a module as well.
> 

Ah, that's neat. Thanks :).

cheers,
-roger




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