Re: [PATCH] wireless: make WEXT_SPY and WEXT_PRIV select WEXT_CORE

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 14:51:44 EST


On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:06 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > It's kinda strange though that you can select wireless drivers without
> > selecting WIRELESS. Maybe the solution is as simple as making WLAN
> > (drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig) depend on WIRELESS?
>
> Yes, I think that would be a very good start.

On the other hand, of course, the whole WIRELESS thing is somewhat
stupid. How about this?

johannes

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: wireless: make wireless drivers select core

It is somewhat non-sensical to allow selecting wireless
drivers without showing wireless core code options, and
since the wext refactoring this has made it possible to
generate configurations that will not build. Avoid this
and make wireless drivers select the wireless options.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2009-10-08 20:25:04.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2009-10-08 20:27:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
menuconfig WLAN
bool "Wireless LAN"
depends on !S390
+ select WIRELESS
default y
---help---
This section contains all the pre 802.11 and 802.11 wireless


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