On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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There's already a completely different fix queued in netdev patchworks
(for myri10ge only right now, to be duplicated for Intel drivers). The
idea is to stop having almost-unrelated drivers select each other
directly, let people select which drivers they really want, and have
Kconfig handle modules/builtin-stuff correctly. See
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/4506/

Right, my plan was to duplicate this for the other drivers.

The work is already done for ixgbe and igb, and we have it in testing.
 It should be in your inbox today or tomorrow.