What's up with GT96100 in the MIPS config file?

What's up with GT96100 in the MIPS config file?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Near line 55 of drivers/net/Config.in there is code that reads like this:

   if [ "$CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100" = "y" ]; then
      bool '  MIPS GT96100 Ethernet support' CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100ETH
   fi

All very well except that CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100 is never set (or even
used) anywhere else.  My cross-reference generator shows this:

snark:~/src/linux$ scripts/kxref.py | grep GT96    
CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100: drivers/net/Config.in
CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100ETH: drivers/net/Makefile drivers/net/Config.in drivers/net/gt96100eth.c

The simplest guess is that the guard part is just wrong.  Can anybody shed
any light on this?
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Re: What's up with GT96100 in the MIPS config file?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Near line 55 of drivers/net/Config.in there is code that reads like this:
>
>    if [ "$CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100" = "y" ]; then
>       bool '  MIPS GT96100 Ethernet support' CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100ETH
>    fi
>
> All very well except that CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100 is never set (or even
>...
> The simplest guess is that the guard part is just wrong.  Can anybody shed
> any light on this?


The problem seems to be that the MIPS kernel tree isn't fully merged into
the official kernel tree. In the MIPS kernel tree arch/mips/config.in
includes:


...
if [ "$CONFIG_MIPS_EV96100" = "y" ]; then
   define_bool CONFIG_PCI y
   define_bool CONFIG_MIPS_GT96100 y
   define_bool CONFIG_SWAP_IO_SPACE y
fi
...


cu
Adrian

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