Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net #3 | Date | Wed, 30 May 2001 13:02:25 +0200 (CEST) |
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> David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl said: > > > -#ifdef CONFIG_ISAPNP > > > +#if defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP) || (defined(CONFIG_ISAPNP_MODULE) && defined(MODULE)) > > > > The result here would be a 3c509 module which differs depending on whether > > the ISAPNP module happened to be compiled at the same time or not. > > In and of itself, that is an acceptable result. We simply cannot take > into kernel configuration variations between two kernel builds. If you > build your isapnp module with one configuration, and your 3c509 module > with another config, consider yourself lucky that it works at all.
I think it is better to avoid such a dependency if possible. It will especially simplify life of people who use precompiled kernels/modules. And (IMHO) it is possible and quite easy to remove dependency of drivers like network drivers on isa-pnp. I will try to prepare a test patch for if when I find some free time... But it would be probably a 2.5 feature (with possible backport later).
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