netdev - Re: [PATCH] Move rmnet out of NET_VENDOR

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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 16:27:37 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Justin Forbes <jforbes@...oraproject.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jacob Keller
 <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move rmnet out of NET_VENDOR_QUALCOMM dependency

On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 17:19:12 -0600 Justin Forbes wrote:
> they add an entry for it, and don't realize that the entry is ignored

Maybe that someone should not be "adding an entry" to a file which 
has this at the top:

#
# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.

?

> VENDOR_QUALCOMM is not enabled.  Either all devices capable of using
> rmnet should be hidden behind VENDOR_QUALCOMM or rmnet should not be.

I agree that Qualcomm drivers are an atrocious mess.
They should live neatly in the wwan section. But it's Qualcomm,
they don't care. Let's not have it sprawl even more.