net: devlink: turn devlink into a built-in

Being able to build devlink as a module causes growing pains.
First all drivers had to add a meta dependency to make sure
they are not built in when devlink is built as a module.  Now
we are struggling to invoke ethtool compat code reliably.

Make devlink code built-in, users can still not build it at
all but the dynamically loadable module option is removed.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/Kconfig

@@ -429,21 +429,12 @@ config NET_SOCK_MSG
 	  with the help of BPF programs.
 
 config NET_DEVLINK
-	tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
+	bool "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
 	help
 	  Network physical/parent device Netlink interface provides
 	  infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and
 	  monitoring.
 
-config MAY_USE_DEVLINK
-	tristate
-	default m if NET_DEVLINK=m
-	default y if NET_DEVLINK=y || NET_DEVLINK=n
-	help
-	  Drivers using the devlink infrastructure should have a dependency
-	  on MAY_USE_DEVLINK to ensure they do not cause link errors when
-	  devlink is a loadable module and the driver using it is built-in.
-
 config PAGE_POOL
        bool
 

net/core/devlink.c

@@ -6482,20 +6482,9 @@ int devlink_compat_flash_update(struct net_device *dev, const char *file_name)
 	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
 
-static int __init devlink_module_init(void)
+static int __init devlink_init(void)
 {
 	return genl_register_family(&devlink_nl_family);
 }
 
-static void __exit devlink_module_exit(void)
-{
-	genl_unregister_family(&devlink_nl_family);
-}
-
-module_init(devlink_module_init);
-module_exit(devlink_module_exit);
-
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Network physical device Netlink interface");
-MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(DEVLINK_GENL_NAME);
+subsys_initcall(devlink_init);

net/dsa/Kconfig

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config HAVE_NET_DSA
 
 config NET_DSA
 	tristate "Distributed Switch Architecture"
-	depends on HAVE_NET_DSA && MAY_USE_DEVLINK
+	depends on HAVE_NET_DSA
 	depends on BRIDGE || BRIDGE=n
 	select NET_SWITCHDEV
 	select PHYLINK