From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings': Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:32:18 -0700 Message-ID: <200711011632.18333.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200711012024.57412.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <20071101141124.0cbe2897.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Toralf =?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev To: Randy Dunlap Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071101141124.0cbe2897.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 01 November 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The MII functions aren't available unless NET_ETHERNET=3Dy. > Howver, the MII functions aren't always needed... >=20 > David, any ideas on this one? It's been several years since I looked at this. It used to behave just fine. Something must have changed in the not-too-distant past to have broken this mechanism... > =A0config USB_USBNET > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework" > + =A0 =A0 =A0 depends on NET_ETHERNET if USB_USBNET_MII !=3D n > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 select MII if USB_USBNET_MII !=3D n >=20 > would be handy. =A0But invalid. >=20 > Hm, wait. =A0Haven't we seen this before and decided that MII should > be made more generally available? =A0I.e., not depend on NET_ETHERNET= ? Some of us keep wanting to see "select" work properly, not omitting dependencies... Re interdependencies MII and NET_ETHERNET, I'll leave that up to the netedev folk. - Dave