netdev - Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:24:28 +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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS

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

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