Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760630AbXKAXcb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:32:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754048AbXKAXcX (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:32:23 -0400 Received: from smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.97]:32102 "HELO smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753717AbXKAXcW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:32:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=mnx9GHNJGDao2xdP7SwZUP4TQ6vMQsn4bZfQ2DOUZ2lJaUhuMtwrnIbM8j8zO49Y2yAwmow6zfhwXQozwI6Sjzdb4asoOsBBVqEmQdwt426r4MblGRLHpyIijSbWaabSVmsT4LF7xSb/PRTRwLLv1xoTQiYvoMRTcDbMRCdIRo4= ; X-YMail-OSG: BWfirAMVM1lzIPEhDLy8GC7lnC3i2G441F9gLtVqve8BtHooNBgjYy0H59rxxcnm129Fnpt1Eg-- From: David Brownell To: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings': Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:32:18 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Toralf =?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev References: <200711012024.57412.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <20071101141124.0cbe2897.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20071101141124.0cbe2897.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711011632.18333.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1150 Lines: 36 On Thursday 01 November 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The MII functions aren't available unless NET_ETHERNET=y. > Howver, the MII functions aren't always needed... > > David, any ideas on this one? It's been several years since I looked at this. It used to behave just fine. Something must have changed in the not-too-distant past to have broken this mechanism... > ?config USB_USBNET > ? ? ? ? tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework" > + ? ? ? depends on NET_ETHERNET if USB_USBNET_MII != n > ? ? ? ? select MII if USB_USBNET_MII != n > > would be handy. ?But invalid. > > Hm, wait. ?Haven't we seen this before and decided that MII should > be made more generally available? ?I.e., not depend on NET_ETHERNET? Some of us keep wanting to see "select" work properly, not omitting dependencies... Re interdependencies MII and NET_ETHERNET, I'll leave that up to the netedev folk. - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/