From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262434AbVEMRBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 13:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262431AbVEMRBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 13:01:46 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:52437 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262434AbVEMRAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 13:00:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4284DD16.8090405@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:00:06 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] make MII no longer user visible References: <20050513035257.GC3603@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050513035257.GC3603@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > MII is a classical example of a helper option no user should ever see. Incorrect. It's the classic example of an option that distributors may want to build as a module, even if no shipped modules need it, to enable net driver development and use in their kernel. Jeff