netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: removed USB

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:43:00 +0200
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: removed USB_USBNET as a config option

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 21:16 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
>> This looks incomplete.
>
> Yes, it is against the earlier patch set which introduces the CDC
> parser in cdc-acm and cdc-wdm. In hindsight I should have reversed
> the order of patches.

Ah, right, I see.

But that patch has it's own set of problems, as pointed out by the test
robot:

All the USBNET based minidrivers (as well as the USB_USBNET
infrastructure itself) are protected by

menuconfig USB_NET_DRIVERS
        tristate "USB Network Adapters"
        default USB if USB
        depends on USB && NET

if USB_NET_DRIVERS
..

but USB_ACM and USB_WDM don't have similar protection.  So you'll have
to make them select NET and USB_NET_DRIVERS too.

Selecting NET is going to be messy.  It already selects 3 other symbols,
which you'll have to add as well.  And I have a feeling that the list of
NET dependencies might grow, which probably explains why there currently
are no "select NET"'s in the kernel. So "select NET" is most likely out
of the question.  And I don't think we want to make USB_ACM or USB_WDM
depend on NET either.  It will not make sense to anyone attempting to
select these drivers, resulting in infinite confusion.

So we might need to move cdc_parse_cdc_header() out of usbnet.c after
all. Keeping it there creates an unnecessary "select" mess.  But I don't
know where to put it...  Either a common CDC helper module or the USB
core I guess.

Sorry for not bringing this up earlier. I know you asked specifically
about this. I obviously didn't think it thoroughly through before.

Bjørn
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