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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:30:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Net: ath5k, kconfig changes Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:36 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 04:38:09AM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote: >>> 2007/8/28, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>: >>>> Also this whole patch seems rather pointless. It saves only >>>> very little and turns the driver into a complete ifdef maze. >>> Also most >>> people will use 5212 code only, 5211 cards are on some old laptops and >>> 5210, well i couldn't even find a 5210 for actual testing :P >> FWIW, I'd bet dollars to donuts that distros will enable them all >> together. > > I would certainly _hope_ that distros enable everything -that is in the > kernel- that they can get their hands on, otherwise when you stick a > card in, it doesn't just work. Distros definitely -do not- do this. Plenty of ancient ISA drivers are disabled at build time, for example, in many distros. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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