[linux-usb-devel] Re: [Bug 4424] New: modem speedtouch USB don't work on amd64 with kernel 2.6.12-rc1

[Duncan Sands]

Hi David,

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:15 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:12 pm, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > This change was discussed some time ago on the usbatm list -
> > David Woodhouse didn't like it IIRC, but perhaps he has changed
> > his mind?  I think his main objection to "select" was that it is
> > hard to work out just who is selecting a given option (but doesn't
> > menuconfig tell you that?).
> 
> Better to just have "depends on FW_LOADER" then ...

I'd rather have "select".  I'm considering having it select ATM as well...
I think select is more logical: if someone has this modem, it's natural
that they simply choose to build the driver, and that dependencies are
automatically taken care of.

> > > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> > >  	tristate "Generic USB ATM/DSL core I/O support"
> > >  	depends on USB && ATM
> > >  	select CRC32
> > > +	select FW_LOADER
> > >  	default n
> > >  	help
> > >  	  This provides a library which is used for packet I/O by USB DSL

All the best,

Duncan.