Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2014 16:40:03 +0200 | From | Antoine Ténart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY |
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On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 04:06:31PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > +config PHY_BERLIN_SATA > > > > > + bool > > > > > > > > Is there any real reason why this cannot be tristate? > > > > > > What we have seen with SATA drivers and phys, is there is link time > > > breakage if the SATA driver is built in and the phy is modular. > > > > > > Maybe this has been fixed now? > > > > Using tristate shouldn't be a problem. I compiled without the PHY > > driver, no link issue. > > The problem i think was when the PHY core and driver was a module and > SATA built in. Please give that configuration a go.
I tested, it went fine.
This was actually fixed by: b51fbf9fb0c3 phy-core: Don't allow building phy-core as a module
Antoine
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