linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 2/2] usbnet: use MII hooks only if CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:07:12 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, link@...gy.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, torvalds@...l.org,
	greg@...ah.com, toralf.foerster@....de
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 2/2] usbnet: use MII hooks only if CONFIG_MII is enabled

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:40:15AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > > +#if defined(CONFIG_MII) || defined(CONFIG_MII_MODULE)
> > > +#define HAVE_MII
> > >...
> > 
> > This seems to cause a CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y, CONFIG_MII=m breakage
> > (as already described earlier in this thread)?
> 
> Well, "alluded to" not described.  Fixable by the equivalent of
> 
> 	config USB_USBNET
> 		...
> 		depends on MII if MII != n
> 
> except that Kconfig doesn't comprehend conditionals like that.

You can express this in Kconfig:
	depends MII || MII=n

But my suggestion was:
#if defined(CONFIG_MII) || (defined(CONFIG_MII_MODULE) && defined(MODULE))

Or simply select MII ...

cu
Adrian

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