On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:51:41AM -0700, walt wrote: > I have one machine with a gigabit NIC which I updated today from Linus' > bk tree. > > The problem is that I was not asked if I wanted the 'new' gigabit > support and therefore the tg3 support was dropped from my new .config. > > I edited .config by hand and deleted any mention of ethernet support -- > and only then did 'make oldconfig' ask me the right questions. > > Also: the phrase (10 or 100Mbit) should be deleted from the 'Ethernet' > menu item since it implies (wrongly) that the item is not needed for > gigabit support. Thanks for this good report (and I'm now understanding the issue without requiring your .config). @Jeff: At a first glance, it seems the patch below that simply removes the dependency of NET_GIGE on NET_ETHERNET would suffice. Is this correct or did I miss something? > Thanks! cu Adrian --- linux-2.6.7-rc2-full/drivers/net/Kconfig.old 2004-05-30 15:33:24.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.7-rc2-full/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-05-30 15:38:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ config NET_GIGE bool "Gigabit Ethernet (1000/10000 Mbit) controller support" - depends on NETDEVICES && NET_ETHERNET && (PCI || SBUS) + depends on NETDEVICES && (PCI || SBUS) help Gigabit ethernet. It's yummy and fast, fast, fast. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
