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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Mirko Lindner <mlindner@syskonnect.de>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] net: use bitrev8
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:54:44 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45389CE4.7050406@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061019133951.1d463173.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:46:47 +0900
> Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Use bitrev8 for bmac, mace, macmace, macsonic, and skfp drivers.
>>
[]
>> ===================================================================
>> --- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> +++ work-fault-inject/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> @@ -2500,6 +2500,7 @@ config DEFXX
>>  config SKFP
>>  	tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support"
>>  	depends on FDDI && PCI
>> +	select BITREVERSE
>>  	---help---
>>  	  Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter.
>>  	  The following adapters are supported by this driver:
> 
[]
> But select is problematic and I do wonder whether it'd be simpler to just
> link the thing into vmlinux.

Why it's problematic?  Maintenance costs of various missing selects?
I don't want extra stuff in kernel (vmlinux) if it's not used.

/mjt

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 16:46 [PATCH 4/6] net: use bitrev8 Akinobu Mita
2006-10-19 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-20  2:50   ` Akinobu Mita
2006-10-20  9:54   ` Michael Tokarev [this message]

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