* Why the net driver for saa9730 is not a module?
@ 2001-09-19 22:17 Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-09-19 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-22 11:12 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Eyal Lebedinsky @ 2001-09-19 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The config does not offer it. Any reason?
I had no trouble building it, however I do not have the hware to check
that
all is well.
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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/>
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--- linux/drivers/net/Config.in.orig Wed Sep 19 22:01:44 2001
+++ linux/drivers/net/Config.in Wed Sep 19 22:10:39 2001
@@ -192,8 +192,7 @@
if [ "$CONFIG_OBSOLETE" = "y" ]; then
dep_bool ' Zenith Z-Note support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_ZNET $CONFIG_ISA
fi
- if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
- bool ' Philips SAA9730 Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_LAN_SAA9730
+ dep_ tristate ' Philips SAA9730 Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_LAN_SAA9730 $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
fi
fi
bool ' Pocket and portable adapters' CONFIG_NET_POCKET
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: Why the net driver for saa9730 is not a module?
2001-09-19 22:17 Why the net driver for saa9730 is not a module? Eyal Lebedinsky
@ 2001-09-19 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-22 11:12 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Alan Cox @ 2001-09-19 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eyal Lebedinsky; +Cc: list linux-kernel
> The config does not offer it. Any reason?
Probably that it only works that way, You should ask the mips folks
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* Re: Why the net driver for saa9730 is not a module?
2001-09-19 22:17 Why the net driver for saa9730 is not a module? Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-09-19 22:40 ` Alan Cox
@ 2001-09-22 11:12 ` Ralf Baechle
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From: Ralf Baechle @ 2001-09-22 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eyal Lebedinsky; +Cc: list, linux-kernel, linux-mips, linux-mips
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:17:36AM +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> The config does not offer it. Any reason?
>
> I had no trouble building it, however I do not have the hware to check
> that all is well.
SAA9730 is such an extremly buggy piece of silicon that Phillips stopped
supporting it. So this driver is used for the Atlas board only which
also has been superseeded by the Malta board; and you shouldn't expect any
future development on this driver. That said, the driver doesn't work
as a module; a quick look at it shows that at least the module_exit()
functionality isn't supported.
Ralf
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