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net: mdio-octeon: Drop obsolete Kconfig advice

Message ID 20151007102638.335e9762@endymion.delvare
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jean Delvare Oct. 7, 2015, 8:26 a.m. UTC
"Y" was the right answer for MDIO_OCTEON when this option was only
available on CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC. But now that the option is visible on
all (64-bit) systems, this piece of advice no longer makes sense. This
helper module is selected automatically by drivers which need it
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Fixes: a6d6786452 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both ThunderX and Octeon")
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla@cavium.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/phy/Kconfig |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Daney Oct. 7, 2015, 4:20 p.m. UTC | #1
On 10/07/2015 01:26 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> "Y" was the right answer for MDIO_OCTEON when this option was only
> available on CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC. But now that the option is visible on
> all (64-bit) systems, this piece of advice no longer makes sense. This
> helper module is selected automatically by drivers which need it
> anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Fixes: a6d6786452 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both ThunderX and Octeon")
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>
> Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla@cavium.com>
> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jean, good catch:
Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>


> ---
>   drivers/net/phy/Kconfig |    2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-4.3-rc4.orig/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig	2015-09-20 23:32:34.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-4.3-rc4/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig	2015-10-07 10:18:46.260452322 +0200
> @@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ config MDIO_OCTEON
>   	  busses. It is required by the Octeon and ThunderX ethernet device
>   	  drivers.
>
> -	  If in doubt, say Y.
> -
>   config MDIO_SUN4I
>   	tristate "Allwinner sun4i MDIO interface support"
>   	depends on ARCH_SUNXI
>
>

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David Miller Oct. 8, 2015, 12:12 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 10:26:38 +0200

> "Y" was the right answer for MDIO_OCTEON when this option was only
> available on CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC. But now that the option is visible on
> all (64-bit) systems, this piece of advice no longer makes sense. This
> helper module is selected automatically by drivers which need it
> anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Fixes: a6d6786452 ("net: mdio-octeon: Modify driver to work on both ThunderX and Octeon")

Applied, thank you.
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Patch

--- linux-4.3-rc4.orig/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig	2015-09-20 23:32:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.3-rc4/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig	2015-10-07 10:18:46.260452322 +0200
@@ -168,8 +168,6 @@  config MDIO_OCTEON
 	  busses. It is required by the Octeon and ThunderX ethernet device
 	  drivers.
 
-	  If in doubt, say Y.
-
 config MDIO_SUN4I
 	tristate "Allwinner sun4i MDIO interface support"
 	depends on ARCH_SUNXI