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Introduce a new configuration symbol: MDIO_DEVICE which allows building the MDIO devices and bus code, without pulling in the entire Ethernet PHY library and devices code. PHYLIB nows select MDIO_DEVICE and the relevant Makefile files are updated to reflect that. When MDIO_DEVICE (MDIO bus/device only) is selected, but not PHYLIB, we have mdio-bus.ko as a loadable module, and it does not have a module_exit() function because the safety of removing a bus class is unclear. When both MDIO_DEVICE and PHYLIB are enabled, we need to assemble everything into a common loadable module: libphy.ko because of nasty circular dependencies between phy.c, phy_device.c and mdio_bus.c which are really tough to untangle. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.