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Message-Id: <200711011632.18333.david-b@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:32:18 -0700 From: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: build #337 failed for 2.6.24-rc1-gb1d08ac In function `usbnet_set_settings': On Thursday 01 November 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The MII functions aren't available unless NET_ETHERNET=y. > Howver, the MII functions aren't always needed... > > David, any ideas on this one? It's been several years since I looked at this. It used to behave just fine. Something must have changed in the not-too-distant past to have broken this mechanism... > config USB_USBNET > tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework" > + depends on NET_ETHERNET if USB_USBNET_MII != n > select MII if USB_USBNET_MII != n > > would be handy. But invalid. > > Hm, wait. Haven't we seen this before and decided that MII should > be made more generally available? I.e., not depend on NET_ETHERNET? Some of us keep wanting to see "select" work properly, not omitting dependencies... Re interdependencies MII and NET_ETHERNET, I'll leave that up to the netedev folk. - Dave - 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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