netdev - Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:31:06 +0000
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, mb@...sch.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:55 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that makes sense to me. Let's put this in but with this better
description rather than the original one.

johannes

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