netdev - Re: netdevice: Kill 'feature' test macros.

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Message-Id: <20110712.121804.641426624646359493.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netdevice: Kill 'feature' test macros.

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:21 +0200

> On Tuesday 12 July 2011 20:10:33 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT)
>> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > Almost all of these have long outstayed their welcome.
>> > 
>> > And for every one of these macros, there are 10 features for which we
>> > didn't get macros added.
>> > 
>> > Let's just delete them all, and get out of habit of doing things this
>> > way.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> 
>> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
>> 
>> This is sure to break out of tree drivers...
> 
> I guess that's a good thing, but it also breaks these:
> 
> drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_internal.h:#ifdef HAVE_NETDEV_PRIV
> drivers/net/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c:#ifdef HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS
> drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_hw.c:#ifdef HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS
> net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c:#ifdef HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> if the above are taken care of.

Thanks for catching this Arnd.
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