Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-next-2.6 2009-06-04

From: Marcel Holtmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:29:43 +0200

Hi Oliver,

> >>>> Hopefully this is (almost?) the last wireless pull request for
> >>>> non-bugfix patches intended for 2.6.31...
> >>>>
> >> (..)
> >>
> >>>> Please let me know if there are problems!
> >>> Pulled into net-next-2.6 and I'll push it back out to kernel.org
> >>> after some build testing.
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> after pulling the latest net-next-2.6 i got this warning which is probably
> >> caused by CONFIG_RFKILL=m in my config:
> >>
> >> hartko@vwagwolkf320:~/net-next-2.6$ make oldconfig
> >> scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig
> >> .config:614:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for RFKILL_INPUT
> > 
> > That functionality is no longer available as a module.  If you need
> > it, then select Y.
> 
> Just some additional nitpicking:
> 
> You should update net/rfkill/Kconfig as it still allows a tristate selection
> for RFKILL and the comment "To compile this driver as a module ..." should be
> removed also.

compiling RFKILL itself as a module is still working perfectly fine. It
is just the RFKILL_INPUT that can't be built as a module anymore. That
part was pointless anyway. And in the future RFKILL_INPUT will go away
and be replaced by a userspace implementation with proper support for
platform specific policies.

Regards

Marcel

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