Re: Can't turn off SSB (CONFIG_SSB)?

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Monday 21 December 2009 20:06:13 Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> On 12/21/2009 10:45 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Monday 21 December 2009 19:31:06 Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> >> Here's what we have.
> > 
> > # CONFIG_SSB is not set
> > 
> 
> Ok, here's what's happening.
> 
> We have a "canned" config that we copy over, per platform.
> 
> I'm showing diffs of that config with what results (i.e. what's left in the linux-2.6.27.38 directory after running "make silentoldconfig" and "make prepare1"):
> 
> --- target/device/via-c7/linux.config   2009-12-21 10:55:55.000000000 -0800
> +++ build_i586/linux-2.6.27.38-astlinux/.config 2009-12-21 11:02:34.000000000 -0800
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  #
>  # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
>  # Linux kernel version: 2.6.27.38
> -# Tue Nov 10 16:50:01 2009
> +# Mon Dec 21 11:02:34 2009
>  #
>  # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
>  CONFIG_X86_32=y
> @@ -1446,8 +1446,16 @@
>  #
>  # Sonics Silicon Backplane
>  #
> -CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=n
> -CONFIG_SSB=n
> +CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=y
> +CONFIG_SSB=m
> +CONFIG_SSB_SPROM=y
> +CONFIG_SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE=y
> +CONFIG_SSB_PCIHOST=y
> +# CONFIG_SSB_B43_PCI_BRIDGE is not set
> +# CONFIG_SSB_SILENT is not set
> +# CONFIG_SSB_DEBUG is not set
> +CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE_POSSIBLE=y
> +CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE=y
> 
>  #
>  # Multifunction device drivers
> @@ -1621,6 +1629,8 @@
>  # CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set
>  # CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is not set
>  # CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set
> +# CONFIG_USB_OTG_WHITELIST is not set
> +# CONFIG_USB_OTG_BLACKLIST_HUB is not set
>  # CONFIG_USB_MON is not set
> 
>  #
> @@ -1955,7 +1965,7 @@
>  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
>  # CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set
> -CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
> +# CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is not set
>  CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
>  # CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is not set
>  CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK=y
> 
> 
> as you can see, a bunch of things are getting "turned on" that we explicitly turned off.
> 
> -Philip
> 
> 
> 

That is expected, because you have
CONFIG_B44=m

-- 
Greetings, Michael.