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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:25:37 -0400
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Are you sure someone ever tried building this driver modular?  The makefile
> would try to build it into three separate modules, and they'd fail to load
> due to unresolved cross-depencies..


For embedded drivers isn't not uncommon that it's never used as a 
module, so it wouldn't surprise me.