| To: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [RFR] gianfar ethernet driver |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:35:37 +0100 |
| Cc: | Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:25:37PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >Are you sure someone ever tried building this driver modular? The > >makefile > >would try to build it into three separate modules, and they'd fail to load > >due to unresolved cross-depencies.. > > > For embedded drivers isn't not uncommon that it's never used as a > module, so it wouldn't surprise me. then it shouldn't be declare tristate at least. But given that modularizig a netdriver is trivial not doing so counts as a bug to me. |
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