Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver

2 messages, 2 authors, 2004-07-08 · open the first message on its own page

Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver

From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2004-07-08 23:25:37

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Are you sure someone ever tried building this driver modular?  The makefile
would try to build it into three separate modules, and they'd fail to load
due to unresolved cross-depencies..

For embedded drivers isn't not uncommon that it's never used as a 
module, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2004-07-08 23:35:37

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:25:37PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
quoted
Are you sure someone ever tried building this driver modular?  The 
makefile
would try to build it into three separate modules, and they'd fail to load
due to unresolved cross-depencies..

For embedded drivers isn't not uncommon that it's never used as a 
module, so it wouldn't surprise me.
then it shouldn't be declare tristate at least.  But given that modularizig
a netdriver is trivial not doing so counts as a bug to me.
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