Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:02:03 -0400 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc2 |
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It would also help if there was a preliminary auto-detect option/feature in the main window that could get a quick idea of what can/should be enabled.
David
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >> On Wednesday 02 June 2004 17:37, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: >> >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2819 >>> >>> Make oldconfig silently disabled support for my CONFIG_TIGON3 NIC. >>> >>> It seems that it depends on CONFIG_NET_GIGE which in turn depends on >>> CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET which was not required in 2.6.6 kernel. >>> >>> Tom >> >> >> >> Many days ago I read on lkml that separating 10,100 and 1000 Mbit >> ethernet is not really justified. There are devices which have >> 100 and 1000 variants. >> >> Just keeping all ethernet devices in one menu sounds sane to me. > > > There are other issues with the build process, when a driver supports > a chipset used in several products there's no reasonable way to find > out which driver should be used, and as you say the split of speed > makes less and less sense, and will just get worse when 10Ge is more > common. > > The solution may be an external table, program, or whatever, since the > situation changes as drivers are modified to support new models, > chipsets move to new vendors, etc. But it would be *really nice* to > find the 3c940 with 3COM drivers, instead of grepping driver source > and looking at spec sheets to find out that the driver is called > something like sk98lin, it's in an unobvious place and has a name > unrelated to 3COM. > > Here's a suggestion if someone wants to do something about this, like > LDP. Produce a CSV list of vendor name, like 3c940, name used for > config in the menu, module name and symbol in the .config file. Would > let users find things a lot faster, and could be used with grep as > well as some spreadsheet tool. > begin:vcard fn:David Ford n:Ford;David email;internet:david@blue-labs.org title:Industrial Geek tel;home:Ask please tel;cell:(203) 650-3611 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
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