Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:18:12 -0700 | Subject | Re: question about samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_xpcs.c | From | Shuah Khan <> |
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2016-01-19 9:26 GMT-07:00 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>: > Hello, > > I was windering what is the purpose of the file > drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_xpcs.c
From git log and comments, it appears this driver is for Samsung SoCs.
> > I can't find anything that refers to it, and if I remove it from the > makefile: > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > obj-$(CONFIG_SXGBE_ETH) += samsung-sxgbe.o > samsung-sxgbe-objs:= sxgbe_platform.o sxgbe_main.o sxgbe_desc.o \ > sxgbe_dma.o sxgbe_core.o sxgbe_mtl.o sxgbe_mdio.o \ > - sxgbe_ethtool.o sxgbe_xpcs.o $(samsung-sxgbe-y) > + sxgbe_ethtool.o $(samsung-sxgbe-y) > > and then make clean and recompile, I see no bad effect. >
What is the motivation for the experiment to remove it? This file probably gets used only on Samsung SoCs.
thanks, -- Shuah
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