Subject: Re: [PATCH] get rid of __OPTIMIZE__ requirement in net drivers

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:52:34 -0400

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Several network drivers have checks that they are only built with -O.
> This breaks checking with sparse and other tools, and seems like a holdover from
> when drivers were built out of tree and the kernel build system was less stable.
> This patch gets rid of these.

Guess is 50% correct... holdover from people compiling the drivers 
out-of-tree using a single shell command (that runs gcc), found at the 
bottom of the driver.

No objection to the patch, though, just saying :)  I'll apply...

	Jeff