[PATCH] ARM: orion5x: only call into phylib when available
Gregory CLEMENT
gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 30 08:31:59 PDT 2017
Hi Arnd,
On mar., mars 28 2017, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> Board code cannot call mdiobus_register_board_info() when phylib
> or mdio_device is a loadable module:
>
> arch/arm/plat-orion/common.o: In function `orion_ge00_switch_init':
> :(.init.text+0x474): undefined reference to `mdiobus_register_board_info'
>
> I had a number of ideas for how this could be solved, but after the MDIO
> code got split out from PHYLIB it has gotten too hard, so I'm basically
> giving up, and only call the mdiobus_register_board_info() function
> if the MDIO layer is built-in to avoid the link error. This is similar
> to how we handle PHY registration on other ARM platforms.
>
> Fixes: 90eff9096c01 ("net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs")
> Fixes: 648ea0134069 ("net: phy: Allow pre-declaration of MDIO devices")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Applied on mvebu/fixes
Thanks,
Gregory
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> index 468b8cb7fd5f..e3429c8c2e38 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ menuconfig ARCH_ORION5X
> select GPIOLIB
> select MVEBU_MBUS
> select PCI
> + select PHYLIB if NETDEVICES
> select PLAT_ORION_LEGACY
> help
> Support for the following Marvell Orion 5x series SoCs:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c
> index 9255b6d67ba5..aff6994950ba 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c
> @@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ void __init orion_ge11_init(struct mv643xx_eth_platform_data *eth_data,
> eth_data, &orion_ge11);
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ORION5X
> /*****************************************************************************
> * Ethernet switch
> ****************************************************************************/
> @@ -480,6 +481,9 @@ void __init orion_ge00_switch_init(struct dsa_chip_data *d)
> struct mdio_board_info *bd;
> unsigned int i;
>
> + if (!IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_PHYLIB))
> + return;
> +
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(d->port_names); i++)
> if (!strcmp(d->port_names[i], "cpu"))
> break;
> @@ -493,6 +497,7 @@ void __init orion_ge00_switch_init(struct dsa_chip_data *d)
>
> mdiobus_register_board_info(&orion_ge00_switch_board_info, 1);
> }
> +#endif
>
> /*****************************************************************************
> * I2C
> --
> 2.9.0
>
--
Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
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development, consulting, training and support.
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