netdev - Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:40:08 +0100
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, mb@...sch.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:31:06 +0000, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:55 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > 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.

The original mail with patch apparently didn't get to netdev (I haven't
received it and it's not in netdev archive). Maarten, could you resend
it please?

Thanks,

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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