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
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