Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754351AbcJKWir (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:38:47 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f178.google.com ([209.85.192.178]:33971 "EHLO mail-pf0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753198AbcJKWiq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:38:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver To: Arnd Bergmann References: <1475959264-16582-1-git-send-email-scott.branden@broadcom.com> <8265935.TobkRj9BnG@wuerfel> Cc: Russell King , Olof Johansson , Florian Fainelli , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, BCM Kernel Feedback , Ray Jui From: Scott Branden Message-ID: <464e62ad-476e-5a2b-cdb4-c4e7f7f34e7d@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:38:06 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8265935.TobkRj9BnG@wuerfel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 25 Hi Arnd, On 16-10-10 12:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:41:04 PM CEST Scott Branden wrote: >> Enable support for the Intel e1000e driver >> >> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui >> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden >> > > Can we make this a loadable module and group it with the other > ethernet drivers? > We use a fixed rootfs image to test the kernel. For simplicity we don't construct a rootfs or load any modules. We just test the kernel image. So for us every defconfig we use needs to be set to y to use the upstreamed kernel. Plus, how do you NFS mount a rootfs if the ethernet driver is a loadable module? > Arnd > Regards, Scott