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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:03:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOesGMhr_-H7Z86hepnTQbsMtJFv+tDRk=YcRbj2w7OU20yG=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464e62ad-476e-5a2b-cdb4-c4e7f7f34e7d@broadcom.com>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Scott Branden
<scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, agreed that it makes sense to enable it here. Applied to fixes.


-Olof

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Enable Intel e1000e driver
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:03:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOesGMhr_-H7Z86hepnTQbsMtJFv+tDRk=YcRbj2w7OU20yG=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464e62ad-476e-5a2b-cdb4-c4e7f7f34e7d@broadcom.com>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Scott Branden
<scott.branden@broadcom.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, agreed that it makes sense to enable it here. Applied to fixes.


-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17 22:04 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
2016-10-11 22:38     ` Scott Branden
2016-10-17 22:03     ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2016-10-17 22:03       ` Olof Johansson

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