On 8/7/09, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > >> > +/* The mask of possible USB boot devices depends on what drivers and >> > + * options have been configured into the kernel. There are too many >> > + * USB network config options to list here, so just assume it is always >> > + * possible to have a USB network device. >> > + */ >> >> That could be fixed though. Make the "USB Network Adaptors" menu into >> an option. Then you just have e.g. "CONFIG_NETDEV_USB", plus the two >> class devices outside the menu (CONFIG_USB_ACM and CONFIG_USB_WDM). Oops, scratch WDM. It doesn't actually provide a network device (otherwise it would depend on NET). > That could be done. It might even meet with the approval of the > networking maintainer, independent of this patch series. > > But what if somebody adds yet another networking class driver outside > the menu? Hmm. Ok, how about a single (hidden) USB_HAS_NETDEV. NETDEV_USB and USB_ACM select USB_HAS_NETDEV. Textual juxtaposition or simple copy+paste inside class/Kconfig should help it get picked up. And I'd add a comment pointing the bewildered to the definition of usb_initdev_mask. I'll write a patch for your inspection this evening. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
