Re: GT64260 ethernet

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:47:23PM -0700, Val Henson wrote:

We have a board with the Galileo GT64260 chip and we'd like to use the
gt64260 ethernet driver.  At the moment, its config option is in
arch/ppc/config.in and is controlled by the CONFIG_GT64260 option
(which is not turned on for our boards, CONFIG_GEMINI is).  I'd think
that the preferred way to fix this is to put the CONFIG_GT64260_ETH
option in drivers/net/config.in.  The alternative is to have

I at least prefer to have as many drivers as possible, including
arch-specific ones, in drivers/net and listed in drivers/net/Config.in.
It makes life a lot easier when evaluating all drivers for a common bug,
or common cleanup.

	Jeff


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Jeff Garzik wrote:

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:47:23PM -0700, Val Henson wrote:

quoted

We have a board with the Galileo GT64260 chip and we'd like to use the
gt64260 ethernet driver.  At the moment, its config option is in
arch/ppc/config.in and is controlled by the CONFIG_GT64260 option
(which is not turned on for our boards, CONFIG_GEMINI is).  I'd think
that the preferred way to fix this is to put the CONFIG_GT64260_ETH
option in drivers/net/config.in.  The alternative is to have

I at least prefer to have as many drivers as possible, including
arch-specific ones, in drivers/net and listed in drivers/net/Config.in.
It makes life a lot easier when evaluating all drivers for a common bug,
or common cleanup.

Yes, that make sense.  I'll get that moved over.

Mark


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