[PATCH 1/2] stmmac: fix pcs_lynx link failure

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Wed Jun 7 06:56:32 PDT 2023


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

The mdio code in stmmac now directly links into both the lynx_pcs and
the xpcs device drivers, but the lynx_pcs dependency is only enforced
for the altera variant of stmmac, which is the one that actually uses it.

Building stmmac for a non-altera platform therefore causes a link
failure:

arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.o: in function `stmmac_mdio_unregister':
stmmac_mdio.c:(.text+0x1418): undefined reference to `lynx_pcs_destroy'

I've tried to come up with a patch that moves this dependency back into
the dwmac-socfpga.c file, but there was no easy and obvious way to
do this. It also seems that this would not be a proper solution, but
instead there should be a real abstraction for pcs drivers that lets
device drivers handle this transparently.

As the lynx_pcs driver is tiny, it appears that we can just avoid the
link error by always forcing it to be built when the stmmac driver
is, even for non-altera platforms. This matches what we already do
for the xpcs variant that is used by the intel and tegra variants of
stmmac.

Fixes: 5d1f3fe7d2d54 ("net: stmmac: dwmac-sogfpga: use the lynx pcs driver")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
index 5583f0b055ec7..fa956f2081a53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config STMMAC_ETH
 	depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK_OPTIONAL
 	select MII
 	select PCS_XPCS
+	select PCS_LYNX
 	select PAGE_POOL
 	select PHYLINK
 	select CRC32
@@ -160,7 +161,6 @@ config DWMAC_SOCFPGA
 	select MFD_SYSCON
 	select MDIO_REGMAP
 	select REGMAP_MMIO
-	select PCS_LYNX
 	help
 	  Support for ethernet controller on Altera SOCFPGA
 
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