Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] staging: brcm80211 depends on MAC80211

From: "Henry Ptasinski" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:16:12 -0700

On 09/21/2010 11:06 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:23:23AM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
>> On 09/21/2010 09:35 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> From: Randy Dunlap<[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Fix brcm890211 build: it should depend on MAC80211.
>>> MAC80211 depends on CFG80211, which takes care of<regulatory_hint>
>>> below.
>>>
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_rx_irqsafe" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_unregister_hw" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_stop_queues" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_wake_queues" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_register_hw" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "regulatory_hint" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_alloc_hw" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_free_hw" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "ieee80211_start_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe" [drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko] undefined!
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap<[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Brett Rudley<[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Henry Ptasinski<[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Nohee Ko<[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig |    2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> --- linux-next-20100921.orig/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig
>>> +++ linux-next-20100921/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig
>>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>>   menuconfig BRCM80211
>>>   	tristate "Broadcom 802.11 WLAN driver for bcm43xx chips"
>>> -	depends on PCI&&   WLAN
>>> +	depends on PCI&&   WLAN&&   MAC80211
>>>   	select WIRELESS_EXT
>>>   	select WEXT_PRIV
>>>   	default N
>>>
>>
>> Actually, I think that should be something like:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig
>> b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconf
>> index 6b74685..228ec37 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>   menuconfig BRCM80211
>>          tristate "Broadcom 802.11 WLAN driver for bcm43xx chips"
>> -       depends on PCI&&  WLAN
>> +       depends on WLAN
>>          select WIRELESS_EXT
>>          select WEXT_PRIV
>>          default N
>> @@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ menuconfig BRCM80211
>>
>>   config BRCM80211_PCI
>>          bool "Broadcom 802.11 WLAN NIC driver"
>> -       depends on BRCM80211
>> +       depends on BRCM80211&&  PCI&&  MAC80211
>>          default y
>>
>>
>> Our fullmac sdio driver is going to use the brcm80211 framework, and
>> it'll only need CFG80211.
>
> Care to send this in a patch-format that I can apply it (i.e. proper
> changelog entry, reported-by:, signed-off-by:, etc.)?

Yes, as soon as I figure out the full fix.  There's a build error if 
BRCM80211 is set and BRCM80211_PCI is not set (somebody pointed this out 
a couple days ago) that I'd like to resolve also.

- Henry