netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] dsa: Allow core and drivers to be built as modules

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Date:	Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:19:55 +0100
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] dsa: Allow core and drivers to be built as
 modules

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:38:38AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Change the kconfig types to tristate and adjust the condition for
> declaring net_device::dsa_ptr to allow for this.
> 
> Adjust the makefile so that if NET_DSA_MV88E6123_61_65=y and
> NET_DSA_MV88E6131=m or vice versa then both drivers are built-in.  We
> could leave these options as bool and make NET_DSA_MV88E6XXX a
> user-selected option, but that would break existing configurations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>

Thanks for the patches!

(While you're at it -- the switch chip drivers in net/dsa/ still
ought to be moved to drivers/net/dsa/ or so -- feel like whipping up
a patch for that?)
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