From: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>, Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:38:06 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <464e62ad-476e-5a2b-cdb4-c4e7f7f34e7d@broadcom.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <8265935.TobkRj9BnG@wuerfel> Hi Arnd, On 16-10-10 12:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:41:04 PM CEST Scott Branden wrote: >> Enable support for the Intel e1000e driver >> >> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> >> > > Can we make this a loadable module and group it with the other > ethernet drivers? > We use a fixed rootfs image to test the kernel. For simplicity we don't construct a rootfs or load any modules. We just test the kernel image. So for us every defconfig we use needs to be set to y to use the upstreamed kernel. Plus, how do you NFS mount a rootfs if the ethernet driver is a loadable module? > Arnd > Regards, Scott
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From: scott.branden@broadcom.com (Scott Branden) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:38:06 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <464e62ad-476e-5a2b-cdb4-c4e7f7f34e7d@broadcom.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <8265935.TobkRj9BnG@wuerfel> Hi Arnd, On 16-10-10 12:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:41:04 PM CEST Scott Branden wrote: >> Enable support for the Intel e1000e driver >> >> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> >> > > Can we make this a loadable module and group it with the other > ethernet drivers? > We use a fixed rootfs image to test the kernel. For simplicity we don't construct a rootfs or load any modules. We just test the kernel image. So for us every defconfig we use needs to be set to y to use the upstreamed kernel. Plus, how do you NFS mount a rootfs if the ethernet driver is a loadable module? > Arnd > Regards, Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 22:38 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-10-08 20:41 [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver Scott Branden 2016-10-08 20:41 ` Scott Branden 2016-10-10 7:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-10-10 7:47 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-10-11 22:38 ` Scott Branden [this message] 2016-10-11 22:38 ` Scott Branden 2016-10-17 22:03 ` Olof Johansson 2016-10-17 22:03 ` Olof Johansson
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