Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

[Kok, Auke]

Kok, Auke wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:13:52 -0800 "Martin Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> - Lots of device IDs have been removed from the e1000 driver and moved
>>>> over
>>>>  to e1000e.  So if your e1000 stops working, you forgot to set
>>>> CONFIG_E1000E.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Wouldn't it make sense to just default this to on if E1000 was on, rather
>>> than screwing
>>> everybody for no good reason (plus breaking all the automated testing, etc
>>> etc)?
>>> Much though I love random refactoring, it is fairly painful to just keep
>>> changing the
>>> names of things.
>> (cc netdev and Auke)
>>
>> Yes, that would be very sensible.  CONFIG_E1000E should default to whatever
>> CONFIG_E1000 was set to.
> 
> which is "y" for x86 and friends, ppc, arm and ia64 through 'defconfig'. the
> Kconfig files do not have defaults in them.
> 
> I can send a patch to adjust the defconfig files, would that be OK? I certainly
> think that would be reasonable, I dislike setting defaults through defconfig for
> network drivers myself and rather would not do that.

that should read "dislike setting defaults through Kconfig ..."

Auke
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