On Wed, 4 May 2016, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "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.
ah, makes perfect sense, thanks.
rday
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