netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/8] [PATCH] Split up rndis

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:32:41 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi>, bjd@...z.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] [PATCH] Split up rndis_host.c


> I see that the rndis_wext.c Kconfig won't kick in unless the
> 802.11 stuff is available ... what additional dependencies
> does that imply for a fatter rndis_host module?

No extra modules are currently required for just plain wext [1]. In the
future, we hope to migrate stuff to cfg80211 though, which is a separate
module.

johannes

[1] mostly because all the code is simply compiled into the kernel...

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