Re: NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 08:38:16 EST


On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:44:52AM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
...
> kgdboe is completely useless without a network card that has a polling
> driver. It seems to me that the simple and easy fix is to set it to
> depend on NETDEVICES but allow it to use select on NETPOLL.

Maybe I miss your point but polling drivers don't need NETPOLL
to work (unless you need netconsole). But I don't know if there
is any easy method to check such driver's dependency with select.

Jarek P.
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