net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs
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>
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