On Thursday 01 November 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The MII functions aren't available unless NET_ETHERNET=y. > Howver, the MII functions aren't always needed... > > David, any ideas on this one?
It's been several years since I looked at this. It used to behave just fine. Something must have changed in the not-too-distant past to have broken this mechanism... > config USB_USBNET > tristate "Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework" > + depends on NET_ETHERNET if USB_USBNET_MII != n > select MII if USB_USBNET_MII != n > > would be handy. But invalid. > > Hm, wait. Haven't we seen this before and decided that MII should > be made more generally available? I.e., not depend on NET_ETHERNET? Some of us keep wanting to see "select" work properly, not omitting dependencies... Re interdependencies MII and NET_ETHERNET, I'll leave that up to the netedev folk. - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
