There is. I'll resend Linus the other patches
> code in drivers/net/net_init.c that is bracketted in "ifdef CONFIG_FC",
> "ifdef CONFIG_HIPPI" and "ifconfig CONFIG_TR" to net/802/{fc,tr,hippi}.c,
> which are all loadable modules. This eliminates some ifdefs and moves
> more code from the kernel proper into loadable modules (which most people
> do not load). I would encourage this change to be adopted in the mainline
> kenrel releases, and I would be happy to submit a patch to implement it
> if that would be more convenient.
That sounds good to me. You'll probably need to export the helper function.
You also be able to move the ethernet one into ethernet, the helper into
net/core/dev.c and slay the entire file ..
Alan
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