Re: [GIT] Networking

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jul 10 2013 - 14:07:57 EST


From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:25:23 +0200

> On 2013.07.09 at 14:53 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> Alexey Brodkin (2):
>> ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver
>> arc_emac: fix compile-time errors & warnings on PPC64
>
> This driver defaults to y for no reason:
>
> +config NET_VENDOR_ARC
> + bool "ARC devices"
> + default y

That doesn't enable the driver, it enables Kconfig options for drivers
for that vendor. If this is off, the user won't even be offered the
Kconfig option for the driver.

This is consistent with how we handle the other vendor guards for
networking driver Kconfigs.
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