> Adding a 'select' statement to something as broad as NETDEVICES sounds > really bad, it has a significant risk of introducing dependency loops > and may be confusing if you want to build a multiplatform config without > networking support (note that NETDEVICES in turn depends on NET, which > can also be disabled).
O.K, so overall it is not simple. So lets drop my idea. > One possibility would be to have a special Kconfig symbol that controls > mdiobus_register_board_info() being present and have that symbol > force PHYLIB to never be "=m". Then we can either have no networking > support and no phylib, turning mdiobus_register_board_info() into a > stub, or we have the function built-in and reachable from the board > code. FYI: Florian is working on splitting MDIO out of PHYLIB. There will be two separate symbols, so it will be possible to have MDIO without PHYLIB. When this happens, i expect mdiobus_register_board_info() will be in the MDIO part, not PHYLIB. Andrew