From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, vapier@gentoo.org, david-b@pacbell.net,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/21] usb net: asix does not really need 10/100mbit
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:09:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EDA4DB.7030904@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803282141.m2SLfFEh011801@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>
> The asix usb driver currently depends on NET_ETHERNET which means you
> cannot enable this driver if you only have 1000mbit enabled in your kernel.
> Since there is no real dependency between the NET_ETHERNET portion and the
> asix driver, simply drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> drivers/net/usb/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -puN drivers/net/usb/Kconfig~usb-net-asix-does-not-really-need-10-100mbit drivers/net/usb/Kconfig
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig~usb-net-asix-does-not-really-need-10-100mbit
> +++ a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ config USB_USBNET
>
> config USB_NET_AX8817X
> tristate "ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters"
> - depends on USB_USBNET && NET_ETHERNET
> + depends on USB_USBNET
> select CRC32
> default y
applied
man, NET_ETHERNET is woefully misnamed
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2008-03-28 21:41 [patch 01/21] usb net: asix does not really need 10/100mbit akpm
2008-03-29 2:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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