netdev - Re: Question about the drivers movement (IBM_NEW

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Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:22:38 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about the drivers movement (IBM_NEW_EMAC)

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 19:07 -0700, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> In commit 9aa328359545 ("ehea/ibm*: Move the IBM drivers") from Dave's
> net tree, you not only move the drivers around, but you change
> CONFIG_IBM_NEW_EMAC to CONFIG_IBM_EMAC.  Won't that mean that all the
> PowerPC configs that currently set CONFIG_IBM_NEW_EMAC to y will no
> longer build this driver?
> 

Your right.  The defconfig's will need to be updated by the arch
maintainers.  This particular change was requested by the maintainer's
of the driver.

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