RE: randconfig build error with next-20140909, in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c

[Michael Chan]

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 23:16 +0000, Anish Bhatt wrote: 
> > It would be really good if SCSI_NETLINK depended on NET instead of selected NET.
> > We shouldn't have kconfig symbols that use 'select' on entire subsystems.
> 
> As a test, I was able to fix this by this approach : change SCSI_NETLINK to depend  
> on NET instead of selecting NET, and replacing 'select NETDEVICES ETHERNET 
> NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM CNIC' to 'depends on CNIC' in bnx2i & bnx2fc. (as CNIC 
> already has a dependency on those). This removes the need to check for IPV6 in 
> bnx2i/fc Kconfigs as well.
> 
> The side effect is that you won't see BNX2 drivers unless CNIC is selected, similar
> for SCSI_NETLINK as well, not sure if there are any other implications.

Right.  I think it is more user-friendly for BNX2I and BNX2FC to select
CNIC.  CNIC is not useful by itself and it makes more sense to select it
automatically when BNX2I/BNX2FC are enabled.


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