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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Scott Branden
<scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On 16-10-10 12:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:41:04 PM CEST Scott Branden wrote:
>>>
>>> Enable support for the Intel e1000e driver
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
>>>
>>
>> Can we make this a loadable module and group it with the other
>> ethernet drivers?
>>
> We use a fixed rootfs image to test the kernel. For simplicity we don't
> construct a rootfs or load any modules. We just test the kernel image. So
> for us every defconfig we use needs to be set to y to use the upstreamed
> kernel.
>
> Plus, how do you NFS mount a rootfs if the ethernet driver is a loadable
> module?

Yeah, agreed that it makes sense to enable it here. Applied to fixes.


-Olof

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