On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:48:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I am using "make xconfig" (the kernel qt configurator). > > How is it that I cannot disable: > Network device support > -> Ethernet driver support > -> Broadcom devices > -> Broadcom QLogic NetXtremeII driver? > > I can only select it as a module, or permanently built into the kernel. It > says: > Selected by: CNIC [=m] && NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && > NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM [=y] && PCI [=y]
As I understand it, the module you want to disable is being selected
(for build) because of the boolean logic shown here. If you have CNIC
*and* NETDEVICES *and* ETHERNET *and* ... (and so on), then you must
also have the Broadcom QLogic NetXtreme II driver.
Now, a quick check on the first of those (I searched the internet for
'linux kernel CNIC', no quotes and took the first link) shows me [1]
that the CNIC driver "supports offload features of Broadcom NetXtreme II
gigabit Ethernet cards".
So, at the moment, you're trying to build the offloading driver for that
card as a module ("CNIC=m") but not the main driver for the card. I
doubt that's going to work.
I would suggest saying no to CNIC and you should then be able to disable
the other driver.
[1] http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/CNIC.html
>
> I would like to disable it.
>
> Seems strange.
>
> TIA,
> Zenaan
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