> On Sep 18, Chris G. Demetriou wrote
> > Why can't you do all of this without stuffing it into the
> > autoconfiguration framework?  Why the strong desire to put it there?
> 
> In order to be able to compile a kernel with only the PHY driver you need.

"Wrong answer."  You can do that by defining and using attributes; you
don't need device declarations (and the user config file hassles) at
all.



cgd