From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:11:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1217520666.3657.37.camel@calx> References: <20080730.145727.07367670.davem@davemloft.net> <20080730151316.a4d76fe9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1217500776.3454.136.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080731.034737.154058020.davem@davemloft.net> <1217518591.3657.27.camel@calx> <20080731085916.232f4c31@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:50929 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbYGaQNn (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:13:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080731085916.232f4c31@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.