linux-kernel - Re: rt2x00: Kconfig symbols RALINK_RT288X and RALINK

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Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:51:33 +0100
From:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@...il.com>,
	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@...il.com>,
	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@...glemail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, users@...x00.serialmonkey.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: rt2x00: Kconfig symbols RALINK_RT288X and RALINK_RT305X

On 13 March 2013 09:59, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> 0) Support for rt2800pci (or "the rt2860/rt3090 chipsets") was added in
> v2.6.33 (three years ago). References to the related Kconfig symbols
> RALINK_RT288X and RALINK_RT305X were introduced in that release. So were
> checks for their macros (CONFIG_RALINK_RT288X and CONFIG_RALINK_RT305X).
>
> 1) The Kconfig symbols themselves were never added in mainline. So these
> references and macros appear to be just markers for dead code in
> mainline, as that code will not be built.
>
> 2) This was previously discussed in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/14/110 . The patch submitted in that
> message (which would remove all the dead code at the time) did not get
> applied.
>
> 3) What is the current status of the (out of tree) code that adds
> RALINK_RT288X and RALINK_RT305X?

They are now present in 3.9-rc1, see a0b0197c (more specifically
85639910..d3d2b420) :)

The actual accepted Kconfig symbol names are different though, so they
should be changed in rt2x00 to match them (SOC_RT288X and SOC_RT305X).


Jonas
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