Subject: [PATCH v4 1/7] phy: add a driver for the Berlin SATA PHY

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Lunn)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:06:31 +0200

> > > > +config PHY_BERLIN_SATA
> > > > +	bool
> > > 
> > > Is there any real reason why this cannot be tristate?
> > 
> > What we have seen with SATA drivers and phys, is there is link time
> > breakage if the SATA driver is built in and the phy is modular.
> > 
> > Maybe this has been fixed now? 
> 
> Using tristate shouldn't be a problem. I compiled without the PHY
> driver, no link issue.

The problem i think was when the PHY core and driver was a module and
SATA built in. Please give that configuration a go.

     Andrew