From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>, kishon@ti.com,
        Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, balbi@ti.com, bcousson@baylibre.com,
        tony@atomide.com, balajitk@ti.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/15] ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:39:03 +0100
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On Friday 07 February 2014 12:33:38 Roger Quadros wrote:
> 
> This means we need to make CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM depend on CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY or
> select it.
> 
> OR
> 
> Generic PHY layer must be fixed so that the API's are always built in.
> 
> What is the better option? I believe making the PHY API's always built in is the better option.
> 

CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM should do

	"depends on CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY || !CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY"

which is the Kconfig way of saying that if CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is a module,
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM needs to be a module as well.

	Arnd
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