From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:47:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:47:24 -0500 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:18368 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:47:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 22:55:41 +0100 From: Tomas Szepe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: lkml , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] move CONFIG_NET to net/Kconfig Message-ID: <20030101215541.GF17053@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030101204325.GB17053@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [torvalds@transmeta.com] > > > > > The best part of this patch is that it eliminates a lot of duplicit > > > stuff in 15 arch-specific files (only sparc32 and m68k define their > > > net devices in an arch specific Kconfig) and places a single 'source > > > "drivers/net/Kconfig"' line in the one file where it belongs, net/Kconfig. > > > > Of course I could move sparc32 and m68k specific net devices to > > drivers/net/Kconfig as well. > > I really think that's the only reasonable option. Please talk to Davem > about getting the resuling sparc problems fixed up (it probably entails > making sure that all the network drivers have the proper dependencies on > PCI and ISA etc). Yes, I'm working on that at the moment. Pete Zaitcev likes the idea and DaveM won't probably hate it either, as that's how sparc64 has always been. I'll carry on with this as soon as sparclinux people ack the resulting patch. I have no clue about m68k whatsoever. -- Tomas Szepe