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Message-Id: <200711011652.39601.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:52:39 -0700
From: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
jgarzik@...ox.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let USB_USBNET always select MII
On Thursday 01 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> All this USB_USBNET_MII trickery is simply not worth it considering how
> few code it saves.
Depends on what systems you're talking about. Forcing unused
code into the kernel is not free, especially if that's made into
a design policy and applied repeatedly to many subsystems.
> As a side effect, this also fixes the following compile error reported
> by Toralf Förster:
Why not just fix the thing which changed and broke the build?
Or if reverse dependencies can't be made to work sanely, then
have those Ethernet-adapter minidrivers depend on NET_ETHERNET
and then select MII. (To make the relationships be simple
enough that current Kconfig can handle them.)
I have a fair number of usbnet devices. Not one of them needs
MII or NET_ETHERNET.
- Dave
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