[PATCH v4 1/7] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Tue May 20 07:06:31 PDT 2014
> > > > +config PHY_BERLIN_SATA
> > > > + bool
> > >
> > > Is there any real reason why this cannot be tristate?
> >
> > What we have seen with SATA drivers and phys, is there is link time
> > breakage if the SATA driver is built in and the phy is modular.
> >
> > Maybe this has been fixed now?
>
> Using tristate shouldn't be a problem. I compiled without the PHY
> driver, no link issue.
The problem i think was when the PHY core and driver was a module and
SATA built in. Please give that configuration a go.
Andrew
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