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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:35:37 +0100
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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.