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: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:53:48 -0800 Message-ID: <200711071853.48460.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200711012024.57412.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <200711071434.52607.david-b@pacbell.net> <20071107225232.GB26163@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Randy Dunlap , Toralf =?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev To: Adrian Bunk Return-path: Received: from smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.93]:37416 "HELO smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754123AbXKHCxv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:53:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071107225232.GB26163@stusta.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > > > But on the other hand, it seems that only the ASIX code will work > > > > right; the DM9601 and MCS7830 Kconfig is different/wrong. > > > > > > I'm not seeing the problem. > > > > > > Which configuration will be handled wrongly? > > > > Notice how only the ASIX kconfig depended on NET_ETHERNET... > > since MII depends on NET_ETHERNET, and (last I knew) the > > reverse dependencies didn't capture the complete dependency > > tree, selecting only MII would leave out some stuff. > > Except for one s390 net driver (I'll check why it's doing this) the > NET_ETHERNET option does not influence what code is being generated - > it's just a Kconfig-internal option allowing to disable a huge bunch > of drivers at once. Drivers like ... AX88xxx, DM9601, and MCS7830!! Except as it turns out, only the first one behaves as intended. You can tell it's a problem by the way it's inconsistent, regardless of the details of the problem. :) - Dave