lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jul]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] CONFIG_NET=n - lots of link time errors

On Jul 21 2007 19:12, David Miller wrote:
>> Enabling drivers from "Devices > Networking" (in menuconfig), for
>> example SLIP and/or PLIP, throws link time errors when CONFIG_NET itself
>> is =n. Have CONFIG_NETDEVICES depend on CONFIG_NET.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
>
>This is the second time I've seen this change in the past few
>days, and people seem to hit it quite readily with randconfig.
>
>It seems reasonable and I'll apply it, thanks Jan.

While randconfig is nice and good, this error actually came by manually
tuning the .config for a specific goal (namely: make a small kernel for an
ancient i386 without modifying any code). Turning off CONFIG_NET
was then just an idea away, because I knew that TCP was quite big.


Jan
--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-07-22 12:13    [W:0.069 / U:0.208 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site