linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: spacemit: compile k1

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Message-ID: <CANBLGcykz77U_V4CqE7PHvtgmeXiKFo0FXy-sHHiAoZ11HnCjw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:33:29 +0200
From: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@...il.com>
To: michael.opdenacker@...tcommit.com
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Yixun Lan <dlan@...too.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
	spacemit@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: spacemit: compile k1_emac driver as built-in by default

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 12:03, <michael.opdenacker@...tcommit.com> wrote:
>
> From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@...tcommit.com>
>
> Supports booting boards on NFS filesystems, without going
> through an initramfs.

Please don't do this. If we build in every ethernet driver that might
be used to boot from NFS we'll end up with almost every driver
built-in and huge kernels. If you need this there is nothing
preventing you from building the driver in, but please don't bloat
defconfig kernels for everyone else.

/Emil