Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: MxL862xx: don't force-enable MAXLINEAR_GPHY

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, at 16:17, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/16/26 04:15, Daniel Golle wrote:
>
> Technically, with "select MAXLINEAR_GPHY", NET_DSA_MXL862 should depend
> on "depends on HWMON || HWMON=n". That would prevent NET_DSA_MXL862=y
> and with it MAXLINEAR_GPHY=y.
>
> Maybe it is time to implement dummy functions for hwmon API calls
> to avoid all this.

I had considered this when I found the build failure, but
I think removing the 'select' here is much better: this
simplifies the dependencies, and allows a valid configuration
with hwmon and gphy support in a loadable module that would
otherwise be impossible.

     Arnd