From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757499Ab2IDSHH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:07:07 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:60244 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757425Ab2IDSHF (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:07:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120904.140701.1000820772009883851.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@vyatta.com Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't allow INET to be not configured From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20120904104451.29819808@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <20120904171330.f6b0a922a754ba0f3acc123b@canb.auug.org.au> <50463941.9070703@xenotime.net> <20120904104451.29819808@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:44:51 -0700 > There is no reason to expose turning off TCP/IP networking. > If networking is enabled force TCP/IP to enabled. This also > eliminates the time chasing down errors with bogus configurations > generated by 'make randconfig' > > For testing, it is still possible to edit Kconfig > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger People have legitimate reasons to enable NET without INET, so let's just fix the dependency bugs as they are reported.