From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings':
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:32:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711011632.18333.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101141124.0cbe2897.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> The MII functions aren't available unless NET_ETHERNET=y.
> Howver, the MII functions aren't always needed...
>
> David, any ideas on this one?
It's been several years since I looked at this. It
used to behave just fine.
Something must have changed in the not-too-distant
past to have broken this mechanism...
> config USB_USBNET
> tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework"
> + depends on NET_ETHERNET if USB_USBNET_MII != n
> select MII if USB_USBNET_MII != n
>
> would be handy. But invalid.
>
> Hm, wait. Haven't we seen this before and decided that MII should
> be made more generally available? I.e., not depend on NET_ETHERNET?
Some of us keep wanting to see "select" work properly,
not omitting dependencies...
Re interdependencies MII and NET_ETHERNET, I'll leave
that up to the netedev folk.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 19:24 build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings': Toralf Förster
2007-11-01 21:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-01 23:32 ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-11-01 23:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-02 18:45 ` David Brownell
2007-11-02 18:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-02 19:30 ` David Brownell
2007-11-02 19:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-07 22:34 ` David Brownell
2007-11-07 22:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-08 2:53 ` David Brownell
2007-11-08 3:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-08 3:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-08 16:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-20 5:26 ` David Miller
2007-11-25 16:30 ` [2.6 patch] ipv4/arp.c:arp_process(): remove bogus #ifdef mess Adrian Bunk
2007-11-26 15:19 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-26 20:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-02 20:05 ` build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings': Adrian Bunk
2007-11-07 8:20 ` David Miller
2007-11-07 22:15 ` David Brownell
2007-11-01 22:25 ` [2.6 patch] let USB_USBNET always select MII Adrian Bunk
2007-11-01 23:52 ` David Brownell
2007-11-02 15:46 ` [2.6 patch] usbnet.c: check for the right MII variable Adrian Bunk
2007-11-07 22:31 ` David Brownell
2007-11-07 8:10 ` [2.6 patch] let USB_USBNET always select MII David Miller
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