From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] b43: add default option to avoid duplicating device support with brcmsmac
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:20:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120113192027.GE18899@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRGNgUkBUvoBJydcdprBXP0ufR+PQ6nXFXdW546xjHbQ-O2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:07:03PM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> 2012/1/13 Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> > 2012/1/11 John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>:
> >> +config B43_BCMA_EXTRA
> >> + ? ? ? bool "Support for devices also supported by brcmsmac"
> >> + ? ? ? depends on B43_BCMA
> >> + ? ? ? default n
> >> +
> >
> > Is this really *the* solution? I wonder if we can do whatever you're
> > trying to do in a better way? To let final users try both drivers
> > without recompiling kernel?
>
> Another issue is that this should arguably be default y if brcmsmac is disabled.
Can you help by suggesting the correct Kconfig magic to implement that?
John
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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: add default option to avoid duplicating device support with brcmsmac
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:20:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120113192027.GE18899@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRGNgUkBUvoBJydcdprBXP0ufR+PQ6nXFXdW546xjHbQ-O2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:07:03PM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> 2012/1/13 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> > 2012/1/11 John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>:
> >> +config B43_BCMA_EXTRA
> >> + bool "Support for devices also supported by brcmsmac"
> >> + depends on B43_BCMA
> >> + default n
> >> +
> >
> > Is this really *the* solution? I wonder if we can do whatever you're
> > trying to do in a better way? To let final users try both drivers
> > without recompiling kernel?
>
> Another issue is that this should arguably be default y if brcmsmac is disabled.
Can you help by suggesting the correct Kconfig magic to implement that?
John
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 20:53 [PATCH] b43: add default option to avoid duplicating device support with brcmsmac John W. Linville
2012-01-11 21:03 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 21:07 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-12 16:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 16:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 16:17 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-12 16:17 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-13 1:32 ` Peter Stuge
2012-01-13 1:32 ` Peter Stuge
2012-01-13 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-13 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-13 2:07 ` Julian Calaby
2012-01-13 19:20 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2012-01-13 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-13 21:52 ` Julian Calaby
2012-01-16 20:22 ` [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
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