From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Franck Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIPS dependency for dm9000 driver Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051130132757.36e1cca0.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20051130132757.36e1cca0.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew 2005/11/30, Andrew Morton : > Franck wrote: > > > > The attached patch adds MIPS dependency for dm9000 ethernet > > controller. Indeed this controller is used by some embedded platforms > > based on MIPS CPUs. > > > > Is there any reason why we cannot enable this driver on all architectures? > > It's moderately important for quality and maintainability reasons that it > be included in the x86 build, at least.. > Actually there's a discussion about that. I previously sent a RFC (subject is "[NET] Remove ARM dependency for dm9000 driver") for that. Now some people are reacting so we should wait for the last words before applying something. thanks -- Franck