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Message-ID: <20210920121523.7da6f53d@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:23 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: nt: usb: USB_RTL8153_ECM should not default to y
On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:53:31 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Yeah.. more context here:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/7fd014f2-c9a5-e7ec-f1c6-b3e4bb0f6eb6@samsung.com/
> >
> > default !USB_RTL8152 would be my favorite but that probably doesn't
> > compute in kconfig land. Or perhaps bring back the 'y' but more clearly
> > mark it as a sub-option of CDCETHER? It's hard to blame people for
> > expecting drivers to default to n, we should make it clearer that this
> > is more of a "make driver X support variation Y", 'cause now it sounds
> > like a completely standalone driver from the Kconfig wording. At least
> > to a lay person like myself.
>
> If it can be a module (tristate), it must be a separate (sub)driver, right?
Fair point.
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