Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 1/2] net: fix a compile error when CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL is not set

From: Eliezer Tamir <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:04:11 +0300

On 01/08/2013 23:03, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:08:07 +0800
> 
>> Thinking about it again, what is the point of your commit commit
>> 89bf1b5a683df497c572c4d3bd3f9c9aa919d773 (net: remove NET_LL_RX_POLL
>> config menue)? After that commit, CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL is not visible
>> by user and no other configs select it, also since it defaults to y, it
>> will be _always_ enabled. If this is really what you want, we can simply
>> remove all !CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL code.
> 
> Yes we could do that, it has no dependencies which is the usual reason
> to have a hidden Kconfig var like this.

I think we still need a config option that depends on net and the
placeholder code.
What happens then if someone does not configure networking?
Won't this break select and poll?