From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't allow INET to be not configured
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120904.140701.1000820772009883851.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904104451.29819808@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:51 -0700
> There is no reason to expose turning off TCP/IP networking.
> If networking is enabled force TCP/IP to enabled. This also
> eliminates the time chasing down errors with bogus configurations
> generated by 'make randconfig'
>
> For testing, it is still possible to edit Kconfig
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
People have legitimate reasons to enable NET without INET, so let's
just fix the dependency bugs as they are reported.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-04 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20120904171330.f6b0a922a754ba0f3acc123b@canb.auug.org.au>
2012-09-04 17:24 ` linux-next: Tree for Sept 4 (netdev) Randy Dunlap
2012-09-04 17:44 ` [PATCH] net: don't allow INET to be not configured Stephen Hemminger
2012-09-04 18:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-09-04 23:48 ` linux-next: Tree for Sept 4 (drivers/net/phy/mdio-mux-mmioreg.c) Randy Dunlap
2012-09-07 19:37 ` Timur Tabi
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