Re: [PATCH phy] phy: enter drivers/phy/Makefile even without CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY

From: Venkat Rao Bagalkote

Date: Tue Feb 03 2026 - 05:00:32 EST



On 23/01/26 4:36 pm, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
Kconfig option CONFIG_PHY_COMMON_PROPS, which builds
drivers/phy/phy-common-props.c, was intended to be selectable
independently of CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY. Yet it lives in drivers/phy/, which
is entered by the Makefile only if CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is set.

Allow the Makefile to enter one level deeper, but stop at drivers/phy/
if CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is unselected (i.e. do not enter vendor folders).
The other stuff from drivers/phy/Makefile except for CONFIG_PHY_COMMON_PROPS,
like CONFIG_PHY_NXP_PTN3222, all depends on CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY.

Fixes: e7556b59ba65 ("phy: add phy_get_rx_polarity() and phy_get_tx_polarity()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/43ea0202-891d-4582-980b-5cb557b41114@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/phy/Makefile | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index ccc05f1eae3e..53fbd2e0acdd 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-y += cache/
obj-y += irqchip/
obj-y += bus/
-obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY) += phy/
+obj-y += phy/
# GPIO must come after pinctrl as gpios may need to mux pins etc
obj-$(CONFIG_PINCTRL) += pinctrl/
diff --git a/drivers/phy/Makefile b/drivers/phy/Makefile
index 30b150d68de7..93715ea0d010 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/phy/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PHY_SNPS_EUSB2) += phy-snps-eusb2.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_LGM_PHY) += phy-lgm-usb.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PHY_AIROHA_PCIE) += phy-airoha-pcie.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PHY_NXP_PTN3222) += phy-nxp-ptn3222.o
-obj-y += allwinner/ \
+obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY) += allwinner/ \
amlogic/ \
broadcom/ \
cadence/ \


I still see linux-next build failures with next-20260202. Can we please have this patch merged.


Mark, can you please pull this one.


Regards,

Venkat.