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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RT2X00_DEVICE USE_EXPAND
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:32:51
Message-Id: 200608021228.05784.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RT2X00_DEVICE USE_EXPAND by Roy Marples
1 On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:21, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:09, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > Perhaps because other options exist? I'd have suggested WIRELESS_DEVICES
4 > > (or even ETHERNET_DEVICES or NET_DEVICES) instead, which would work for
5 > > your case and also be applicable to other packages.
6 >
7 > Well, they are specific drivers from the rt2x00 package (rt2400,
8 > rt2500pci+usb, rt61, rt73 + rfkill support).
9 >
10 > I very much doubt that anything outside of rt2x00 would ever use those
11 > flags. Other network drivers appear to have one tarball for each device,
12 > whereas rt2x00 is an all-in-one type approach.
13
14 if nothing else uses them, what's wrong with local USE flags ?
15 -mike