From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: geert@linux-m68k.org (Geert Uytterhoeven) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:07:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Make USB support modular In-Reply-To: <11285144.SLyHNBFeg0@avalon> References: <1432637918-8946-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <1432637918-8946-2-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <11285144.SLyHNBFeg0@avalon> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Laurent, On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tuesday 26 May 2015 12:58:38 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> Make USB support modular to reduce kernel size: > > This means we lose support for NFS root on USB-based ethernet controllers. I'm > not sure that's a very good idea. That's true... Enabling the USB network drivers is one thing I can easily do myself. But I don't know on which boards they are used, and which USB host controller drivers are needed. P.S. Strange, USB_NET_DRIVERS is tristate, but setting it to "y" doesn't mean all USB network drivers become builtin, as USB_NET_DRIVERS is never used in a "depends" construct... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds