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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:31:16 +0000 From: Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com> To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 linux-next] et131x: Promote staging et131x driver to drivers/net On 23 January 2013 10:31, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:10:58AM +0000, Mark Einon wrote: >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/Kconfig >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..6854966 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/agere/Kconfig >> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ >> +# >> +# Agere device configuration >> +# >> + >> +config NET_VENDOR_AGERE >> + bool "Agere devices" >> + default y >> + depends on PCI >> + ---help--- >> + If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y >> + and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from >> + <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. >> + >> + Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the >> + kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all >> + the questions about Atheros devices. If you say Y, you will be asked > ^^^^^^^ > Agere? Well spotted, thanks. I'll fix it asap. > >> + for your specific card in the following questions. >> + > > I think you should just leave this block out entirely. It doesn't > save time for anyone. It looks to be standard boilerplate for all the net/ethernet drivers having their own directory. I'm going to leave it in for now. If that's an issue that needs a change, it would also affect the other drivers and I think should be tackled as a separate thing. Cheers, Mark -- 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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