linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: do not rebuild when kernel version changes

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Date:	Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:03:57 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: do not rebuild when kernel version changes

Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007 20:03, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> Replacing use of UTS_RELEASE with utsname()->release
>> avoids that this module is rebuild each
>> time the kernel version changes.
>>
>> Compile tested only.
> 
> I vote to get rid of the whole bcm43xx_ethtool.c file, as it's useless.
> It will vanish with the advent of d80211, anyway.
> Larry?

Is bcm43xx_ethtool.c really useless? If so, I vote to remove it. I have never tried to use ethtool
on bcm43xx. Similarly, it isn't very often that I recompile the kernel when bcm43xx hasn't changed
and would not have noticed the bug that Sam reported.

Larry

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