From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:07:05 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] wf111: new package In-Reply-To: <1422974005-21617-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> References: <1422974005-21617-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150220100705.19371d65@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Antoine Tenart, On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:33:25 +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote: > Adds support for the BlueGiga WF111 WiFi driver and the binary utilities > distributed alongside the driver. An account is required to download the > sources from the BlueGiga website, which can be created freely. The > driver is available for armv5, arm7a and i386. > > Since it is not possible to automatically retrieve the sources, because > of the required user account needed on the BlueGiga website, an option > is added to let the Buildroot user specify the directory where the > driver tarball was downloaded. > > Finally, two options must be selected in the Linux kernel configuration: > CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT and CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV. These are blind options (i.e. > not selectable directly) so they cannot be enabled by a change in > linux/linux.mk. The user as two choices to enable these options: > - By making them non blind, with a "WF111 support" configuration entry > for example. > - By enabling another WiFi driver that select them. > > The work behind this commit was funded by ECA Group > . ECA Group is the copyright owner of the > contributed code. > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart Thanks, applied to next. It would be good however to send a followup patch adding _LICENSE and _LICENSE_FILES. Best regards, Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com