Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] net/fec: add dual fec support for mx28

From: Greg Ungerer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:25:41 +1000

Hi Uwe,

On 11/01/11 23:07, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:24:12PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> On 11/01/11 20:27, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:13:13PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>> This option is used nowhere and should be removed. Certainly it does not
>>> have the effect of enabling the second ethernet controller.
>>
>> It does for a ColdFire platform...
>>
>> grep -r CONFIG_FEC2 *
>>
>> arch/m68knommu/configs/m5275evb_defconfig:CONFIG_FEC2=y
>> arch/m68knommu/platform/527x/config.c:#ifdef CONFIG_FEC2
>> arch/m68knommu/platform/527x/config.c:#ifdef CONFIG_FEC2
> IMHO Sascha's comment[1] applies here, too.

I am not arguing that it doesn't :-)

Simply that removing that config option and doing nothing
else would not be the right thing to do.

Regards
Greg

> And someone might want to do what he suggested soon or the patch
> removing CONFIG_FEC2[2] needs to be commented accordingly.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/182929/focus=183378
> [2] http://mid.gmane.org/[email-masked]
>

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