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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_NET=n - lots of link time errors
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:12:23 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:27:38 +0200 (CEST)

> Enabling drivers from "Devices > Networking" (in menuconfig), for 
> example SLIP and/or PLIP, throws link time errors when CONFIG_NET itself 
> is =n. Have CONFIG_NETDEVICES depend on CONFIG_NET.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>

This is the second time I've seen this change in the past few
days, and people seem to hit it quite readily with randconfig.

It seems reasonable and I'll apply it, thanks Jan.