From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, jeff@garzik.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:11:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217520666.3657.37.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731085916.232f4c31@extreme>
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 08:59 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I have no problem with an embedded CONFIG_ETHTOOL that normal users
> can ignore. Just don't expect the network developers to fix things
> that are broken when CONFIG_ETHTOOL is not enabled. I.e if embedded
> build is broken it is your problem.
menuconfig EMBEDDED
bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
help
This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
If you think that disclaimer needs to be bigger, let me know.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 16:13 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
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 [this message]
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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