Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v1 2/5] net: phy: remove MACSEC guard

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:35:33 +0200

2023-08-11, 18:59:57 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 06:32:46PM +0300, Radu Pirea (NXP OSS) wrote:
> > Allow the phy driver to build the MACSEC support even if
> > CONFIG_MACSEC=N.
> 
> What is missing from this commit message is an answer to the question
> 'Why?'

The same question applies to patch #1. Why would we need a dummy
implementation of macsec_pn_wrapped when !CONFIG_MACSEC?

I guess it's to avoid conditional compilation of
drivers/net/phy/nxp-c45-tja11xx-macsec.c and a few ifdefs in the main
driver.

-- 
Sabrina