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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:55:45 +0100 From: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com> To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, mb@...sch.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS 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. maarten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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