Re: [PATCH 4/6] net: use bitrev8

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 05:55:28 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:46:47 +0900
> Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Use bitrev8 for bmac, mace, macmace, macsonic, and skfp drivers.
>>
[]
>> ===================================================================
>> --- work-fault-inject.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> +++ work-fault-inject/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> @@ -2500,6 +2500,7 @@ config DEFXX
>> config SKFP
>> tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support"
>> depends on FDDI && PCI
>> + select BITREVERSE
>> ---help---
>> Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter.
>> The following adapters are supported by this driver:
>
[]
> But select is problematic and I do wonder whether it'd be simpler to just
> link the thing into vmlinux.

Why it's problematic? Maintenance costs of various missing selects?
I don't want extra stuff in kernel (vmlinux) if it's not used.

/mjt
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