From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: drivers/net: Kconfig & Makefile cleanup
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:58:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322081889.2282.8.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321944662.2839.222.camel@deadeye>
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On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 22:51 -0800, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> ou wrote that (some time ago now):
> > As a side cleanup, found that the arcnet, token ring, and PHY
> > Kconfig options were a tri-state option and should have been
> > a bool option.
>
> How did you decide that? This seems to be correct for TR, but ARCNET
> and PHYLIB each select some support code that can be built as a module
> (and which has been, in Debian).
>
> Ben.
Off the top of my head, I was making the decision based on the other
protocols Kconfig entries.
So does that mean ARCNET could be a module and a driver using ARCNET
would have to be a module as well?
I will take a look at this to come up with a solution, if one has not
been sent out yet.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 6:48 drivers/net: Kconfig & Makefile cleanup Ben Hutchings
2011-11-22 6:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-23 20:58 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
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2011-11-22 6:49 Ben Hutchings
2011-11-22 16:14 ` Randy Dunlap
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