"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > just noticed that on my x86 system, when i do a: > > $ make defconfig > > under "Ethernet driver support", all the top-level vendor choices > (3com, adaptec and so on) all have Kconfig entries with: > > default y > > reasonably, for each vendor, all of their cards are not "default y" > (that would be kind of silly), but what is the logic behind making > each vendor selection "default y"? To avoid introducing build regressions with the introduction of these directories: http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/08/23/41 This is because these directories were retro-fitted to the Kbuild system for most ethernet drivers. Bjørn _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
