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

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Message-Id: <200801081049.49764.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:49:49 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.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

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Hmmm.  Well, go the current route then ... but come up with a good
plan to split it up later, so that connecting a typical non-wireless
RNDIS device won't incur such needless extra modules.

- Dave


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


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