[PATCH v1 net-next] net: phy: Drop #inclusion of <linux/mod_devicetable.h> from <linux/mdio.h>

From: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 07:43:28 EST


<linux/mdio.h> itself doesn't use any of the device id structures. The
files #including <linux/mdio.h> use a variety of them:

$ git grep -l '<linux/mdio.h>' | xargs grep --color -E '\<(acpi_device_id|amba_id|ap_device_id|apr_device_id|auxiliary_device_id|bcma_device_id|ccw_device_id|cdx_device_id|coreboot_device_id|css_device_id|dfl_device_id|dmi_(device|system)_id|eisa_device_id|fsl_mc_device_id|hda_device_id|hid_device_id|hv_vmbus_device_id|i2c_device_id|i3c_device_id|ieee1394_device_id|input_device_id|ipack_device_id|isapnp_device_id|ishtp_device_id|mcb_device_id|mdio_device_id|mei_cl_device_id|mhi_device_id|mips_cdmm_device_id|of_device_id|parisc_device_id|pci_device_id|pci_epf_device_id|pcmcia_device_id|platform_device_id|pnp_(card_)?device_id|rio_device_id|rpmsg_device_id|sdio_device_id|sdw_device_id|serio_device_id|slim_device_id|spi_device_id|spmi_device_id|ssam_device_id|ssb_device_id|tb_service_id|tee_client_device_id|typec_device_id|ulpi_device_id|usb_device_id|vchiq_device_id|virtio_device_id|wmi_device_id|x86_(cpu|device)_id|zorro_device_id|cpu_feature)\>'
...

but none of them relies on <linux/mdio.h>'s #include.

<linux/mod_devicetable.h> is a bad header mixing many different device
id structures and thus is an unfortunate dependency because if e.g.
struct wmi_device_id is modified all users of <linux/mdio.h> need to be
recompiled despite none of them using struct wmi_device_id.

So drop the unused header.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hello,

the check that <linux/mod_devicetable.h> wasn't needed by all the users
of <linux/mdio.h> was done on top of v7.2-rc2.

Best regards
Uwe

include/linux/mdio.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mdio.h b/include/linux/mdio.h
index f4f9d9609448..300805e66592 100644
--- a/include/linux/mdio.h
+++ b/include/linux/mdio.h
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@

#include <uapi/linux/mdio.h>
#include <linux/bitfield.h>
-#include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>

struct gpio_desc;
struct mii_bus;

base-commit: 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda
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2.55.0.11.g153666a7d9bb