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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:01:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730140136.42223e3c@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730224849.59852c68@surf>

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:49 +0200
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Le Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:37:27 -0700,
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> a écrit :
> 
> > This option needs to be forced on when bridging or bonding is
> > selected.
> 
> Do you mean something like the following fixup patch ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Make sure ETHTOOL support is selected when bonding and bridging are
> requested.

Yes, but still concerned that the loss of functionality. The kernel developers
have been preaching to get rid of module parameters for configuration, and use
a standard interfaces such as ethtool;then the embedded folks want to save a
meager 6K.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 19:39 [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support akpm
2008-07-30 20:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-30 20:48   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:01     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-30 21:35       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 21:48         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 21:52           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-30 22:04             ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 23:35               ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 21:57           ` David Miller
2008-07-30 22:13             ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:33               ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:39               ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:43                 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:49                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:47                 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:36                   ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 15:59                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-31 16:11                       ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31 18:17                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-30 21:35 ` David Miller
2008-07-30 21:44   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 22:24   ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 22:37     ` David Miller
2008-07-30 23:05       ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-30 23:21         ` David Miller
2008-07-31  1:10           ` Matt Mackall
2008-07-31  1:23             ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:22               ` Kalle Valo

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