From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>,
Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:35:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708233537.GA20763@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40EDD7F1.6090309@pobox.com>
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:25:37PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Are you sure someone ever tried building this driver modular? The
> >makefile
> >would try to build it into three separate modules, and they'd fail to load
> >due to unresolved cross-depencies..
>
>
> For embedded drivers isn't not uncommon that it's never used as a
> module, so it wouldn't surprise me.
then it shouldn't be declare tristate at least. But given that modularizig
a netdriver is trivial not doing so counts as a bug to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <8F52CF1D-C916-11D8-BB6A-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com>
2004-07-05 17:28 ` [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver Jeff Garzik
2004-07-06 2:38 ` jamal
[not found] ` <20040708231131.GA20305@infradead.org>
2004-07-08 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-08 23:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <1089375760.28614.1365.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
2004-07-09 16:47 ` Phy layer notes (was Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver) Jeff Garzik
[not found] <C681B01E-CEA9-11D8-931F-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com>
[not found] ` <89563A5C-CFAE-11D8-BA44-000393C30512@freescale.com>
2004-07-07 3:18 ` [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver jamal
2004-07-07 3:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-07 3:41 ` jamal
2004-07-07 5:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-07 18:29 ` jamal
[not found] ` <40EDC7A7.8060906@pobox.com>
2004-07-08 23:08 ` jamal
2004-07-21 19:51 ` Andy Fleming
2004-07-21 20:14 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-02 22:19 ` Andy Fleming
2004-08-02 23:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-02 23:25 ` Andy Fleming
2004-08-04 23:02 ` Andy Fleming
2004-08-16 16:31 ` Kumar Gala
2004-08-22 21:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-07 5:27 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <D3458628-D05D-11D8-BA44-000393C30512@freescale.com>
2004-07-08 22:29 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <944A2374-D137-11D8-8835-000393C30512@freescale.com>
2004-07-09 1:32 ` jamal
2004-07-09 1:42 ` jamal
2004-07-26 22:06 ` Andy Fleming
2004-07-26 22:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-02 13:59 ` Kumar Gala
2004-08-02 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-02 14:11 ` Kumar Gala
[not found] ` <2A724364-D53A-11D8-8835-000393C30512@freescale.com>
[not found] ` <40F4A6E5.4060000@pobox.com>
2004-07-19 23:29 ` Andy Fleming
2004-07-20 1:13 ` David Woodhouse
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