netdev - Re: [PATCH] cxgb{3,4}: streamline Kconfig options

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Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:41:15 -0800
From:	Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, divy@...lsio.com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb{3,4}: streamline Kconfig options

Jan Beulich wrote:

> As to that INET vs NET dependency - is it possible that the
> network drivers really just need NET, but the iSCSI ones need
> INET? In which case the only common dependency would be
> PCI - certainly not worth a custom helper option.

I see about a dozen network drivers that depend on INET.  These may be the 
result of cut&paste from other drivers' Kconfig entries rather than actual 
dependencies.  Also some of these drivers select or selected in the past 
INET_LRO and that may have something to do with their INET dependency, not sure.

Reading the commit message that introduced CHELSIO_T3_DEPENDS, it talks of 
hidden dependencies that select does not see.  I am not sure which exactly 
but since it's been a few years since that commit I'll try to see what the 
situation is today without the *_DEPENDS symbols and let you know.
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