From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Richard_R=3F=F6jfors?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: Added KS8842 driver Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:52:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4A25831A.7010003@mocean-labs.com> References: <4A25745E.3050402@mocean-labs.com> <20090602191122.GA5800@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Pirko Return-path: Received: from proxy3.bredband.net ([195.54.101.73]:39123 "EHLO proxy3.bredband.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751225AbZFBTw6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:52:58 -0400 Received: from ironport.bredband.com (195.54.101.120) by proxy3.bredband.net (7.3.140.3) id 49F597CD00E3D8FA for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:52:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090602191122.GA5800@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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