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From: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail•com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	mb@bu3sch•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:55:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AB79D1.2070002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1168860268.3344.0.camel@johannes.berg>

Johannes Berg schreef:
> On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:17 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>   
>> Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS
>> Nothing uses this, and it breaks the kernel build if a wireless device is used with a unsupported type of bus.
>> Verified this with a grep.
>>     
>
> I don't really care about the symbol and I'm in favour of removing it if
> it is useless, but I don't understand the rationale. How does enabling
> this cause anything to fail?
>
> johannes
>   
Enabling this doesn't cause anything to fail, but my wireless router
doesn't have a pci bus, but instead a native SSB, so CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS
isn't selected. This in turn causes wext-common.o to not be built, so I
get missing symbols and a build breakage. That's why I made
wext-common.o depend on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT instead of
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS. Since nothing else uses CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS I
decided to kill that symbol.

maarten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45A91414.40107@gmail.com>
2007-01-15 11:24 ` [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS Johannes Berg
2007-01-15 12:55   ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2007-01-15 13:31     ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-15 14:40       ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-15 19:24         ` Maarten Lankhorst

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