[PATCH 2/4][RFC] lro: Kconfig and Makefile

Kok, Auke auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com
Tue Jul 31 03:00:30 EST 2007


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Why make this a user selectable option at all? Unless you want
>> to deal with out of tree drivers (not my problem), it should be hidden
>> to avoid having to explain an support it.
> 
> In this case it's an optional library kernel module.  That seems to be a 
> common setup for library modules.  We do the same with CONFIG_MII and 
> drivers/net/mii.ko as well.
> 
> Originally it was done purely in the Makefile, but that does not account 
> for net drivers in sub-directories (or out of tree as you point out).

speaking of that, shouldn't there be a NETIF_F_LRO ?

Auke



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