netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: add dependency on fw class module

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Message-ID: <1277291941.26161.9.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:19:01 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@...gic.com,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add dependency on fw class module

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 23:54 -0700, Amit Kumar Salecha wrote:
> From: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
> 
> netxen_nic and qlcnic driver depends on firmware_class module.
[...]

By the way, I noticed that these drivers are very similar, and it looks
like qlcnic has code for a bunch of NetXen boards even though it doesn't
include their device IDs in its device ID table.  Have you considered
merging the two?

Ben.

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