On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> I think we'd be better off with a small stub that is always built into the
>> kernel for phy_read/phy_write, etc or the function pointer indirection
>> mechanism.
>
> And then instead of build failures, you'd get a silent runtime failure to
> apply the workaround if phylib is built as a module.

Indeed; I vote for the build failure over the silent runtime failure.
If a platform needs it and does not select it, then the platform is
broken and it is a bug.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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