linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: don't allow INET to be not configured

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Message-Id: <20120904.140701.1000820772009883851.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	rdunlap@...otime.net, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't allow INET to be not configured

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:51 -0700

> There is no reason to expose turning off TCP/IP networking.
> If networking is enabled force TCP/IP to enabled. This also
> eliminates the time chasing down errors with bogus configurations
> generated by 'make randconfig'
> 
> For testing, it is still possible to edit Kconfig
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

People have legitimate reasons to enable NET without INET, so let's
just fix the dependency bugs as they are reported.
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