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
prev 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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