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. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev