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Date:	Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:34:48 +0100
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>
To:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
CC:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UWB Kconfig: cannot set UWB to N in gconfig

Richard Kennedy wrote:
> I sometimes use 'make gconfig' and I noticed that I cannot disable the
> UWB option -- it just won't let me set it to N.
> 
> AFAICT this is because the CONFIG USB_WUSB selects UWB which forces it
> on.
> applying this patch fixes the issue but I'm not sure if this is the
> right way to go about it.
> 
> any thoughts?
> 
> regards
> Richard
> 
> This is against 2.6.31
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/Kconfig
> index eb09a0a..cc97041 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/Kconfig
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ config USB_WUSB
>  	tristate "Enable Wireless USB extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>  	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>  	depends on USB
> -        select UWB
> +        depends on UWB

NAK.  It's not sufficiently obvious to a user that Wireless USB support
requires UWB.

This is really an issue with the configuration application.  Consider
improving them to allow switching off select'ed options and popping up a
dialog that says "switching off UWB will also switch off WUSB" etc.

David
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