Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mips: Set CONFIG_NET=y in defconfigs

From: Michal Marek <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:06:04 +0200

On 2014-09-23 18:02, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michal Marek <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:44:00 +0200
> 
>> Commit 5d6be6a5 ("scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK dependent on NET
>> instead of selecting NET") removed what happened to be the only instance
>> of 'select NET'. Defconfigs that were relying on the select now lack
>> networking support.
>>
>> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[email-masked]>
> 
> On the contrary, since NET was being selected for them indirectly
> previously, weren't they depending instead upon NET being enabled?
> 
> Likewise for SCSI_NETLINK, SCSI_FC_ATTRS, and whatever was triggering
> the select upon them?

They have SCSI_FC_ATTRS=y/m and were relying on the select statements
turning this into SCSI_NETLINK=y and CONFIG_NET=y.

Michal