Re: [PATCH] Fix missing dependency of PCH_GBE driver

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 13:16:04 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:16:29 -0400

> While doing some randconfigs I stumbled across this build error:
>
> ERROR: "mii_ethtool_gset" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "generic_mii_ioctl" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "mii_nway_restart" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "mii_check_gmii_support" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "mii_link_ok" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "mii_ethtool_sset" [drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
>
> The config option PCH_GBE is missing the dependency of MII.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The canonical way to handle this is to use 'select'. Thus,
I've committed the following to fix this.

Thanks.

--------------------
pch_gbe: Select MII.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/Kconfig | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 77c1fab..f24179d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2520,6 +2520,7 @@ source "drivers/net/stmmac/Kconfig"
config PCH_GBE
tristate "PCH Gigabit Ethernet"
depends on PCI
+ select MII
---help---
This is a gigabit ethernet driver for Topcliff PCH.
Topcliff PCH is the platform controller hub that is used in Intel's
--
1.7.3.2

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