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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings':
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:53:48 -0800
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On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > > > But on the other hand, it seems that only the ASIX code will work
> > > > right; the DM9601 and MCS7830 Kconfig is different/wrong.
> > > 
> > > I'm not seeing the problem.
> > > 
> > > Which configuration will be handled wrongly?
> > 
> > Notice how only the ASIX kconfig depended on NET_ETHERNET...
> > since MII depends on NET_ETHERNET, and (last I knew) the
> > reverse dependencies didn't capture the complete dependency
> > tree, selecting only MII would leave out some stuff.
> 
> Except for one s390 net driver (I'll check why it's doing this) the 
> NET_ETHERNET option does not influence what code is being generated - 
> it's just a Kconfig-internal option allowing to disable a huge bunch
> of drivers at once.

Drivers like ... AX88xxx, DM9601, and MCS7830!!  Except as
it turns out, only the first one behaves as intended.

You can tell it's a problem by the way it's inconsistent,
regardless of the details of the problem.  :)

- Dave
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