Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: tegra: enable brcmfmac in defconfig

From: [email-masked] (Arend van Spriel)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:05:18 +0200

On 09/21/2012 06:19 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/21/2012 08:39 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 09/21/2012 10:55 AM, Wei Ni wrote:
>>> New options enabled:
>>> * CFG80211_WEXT: (dependency)
>>> * BRCMFMAC: wlan driver, enable as module.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>    arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig |    2 ++
>>>    1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig
>>> b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig
>>> index adcf3c2..04b18ea 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig
>>> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ CONFIG_BT_BNEP=y
>>>    CONFIG_BT_HIDP=y
>>>    CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB=m
>>>    CONFIG_CFG80211=y
>>> +CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y
>>
>> Any particular reason for enabling this? The driver does not
>> specifically need it. The option only allows use of WEXT dependent
>> user-space tools like iwconfig and iwlist. At least it is not needed by
>> brcmfmac driver hence it does not select it.
>>
>> You indicate there is a dependency. Could you elaborate?
>
> "Dependency" probably isn't correct.
>
> However, the intent of tegra_defconfig is to provide a useful
> configuration for Tegra boards. Without the ability to use
> iwconfig/iwlist, enabling the wireless driver doesn't seem useful; how
> would someone configure the wireless connection?

Let me explain. CFG80211 provides a netlink api called NL80211 which is 
favorable over WEXT api. In user-space the iw tool is replacing iwconfig 
and iwlist. Also wpa_supplicant has support for both wext and nl80211.

CFG80211_WEXT basically provides an adaptation/compatibility layer that 
allows user-space tools to interact with cfg80211 drivers. However, it 
is intended to be phased out so I would not recommend putting it in a 
defconfig.

Gr. AvS