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From: "Richard R?öjfors" <richard.rojfors.ext@mocean-labs.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: Added KS8842 driver
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:52:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A25831A.7010003@mocean-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090602191122.GA5800@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>

Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>
>> +config KS8842
>> +	tristate "Micrel KSZ8842"
>> +	depends on PCI
> Why does this driver depend on PCI ?

Good question.
The KS8842 switch is actually behind an FPGA connected via PCIe,
the next version of the FPGA firmware will have DMA support and the driver will depend on PCI.
Is it worth removing the dependency for now?


--Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-02 18:50 [PATCH] netdev: Added KS8842 driver Richard Ršöjfors
2009-06-02 19:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-06-02 19:52   ` Richard R?öjfors [this message]
2009-06-03  8:38     ` Florian Fainelli

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