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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Subject: Re: NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:47:25 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:44:52AM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
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> kgdboe is completely useless without a network card that has a polling 
> driver.  It seems to me that the simple and easy fix is to set it to 
> depend on NETDEVICES but allow it to use select on NETPOLL.

Maybe I miss your point but polling drivers don't need NETPOLL
to work (unless you need netconsole). But I don't know if there
is any easy method to check such driver's dependency with select.

Jarek P.