From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, <backports@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_WLAN getting disabled - copy-list usage
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:04:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5641DD38.4080806@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446467807.3205.21.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On 11/02/2015 01:36 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> FYI, if anyone's using backports with a copy-list file that restricts
> the wifi drivers to their own, and is working against a recent tree
> that includes the drivers/net/wireless/realtek/ move, then CONFIG_WLAN
> will end up getting disabled.
>
> To fix that for now modify your copy-list to include
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/Makefile (and that file only).
>
> Once Kconfig changes go in and the Makefile statement
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_WLAN) += realtek/
>
> changes to
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_WLAN_REALTEK) += realtek/
>
> (or similar) this issue will go away.
Thanks. It worked for me. As Kalle intends to move more drivers into
vendor subfolder, can we expect this will happen again. Can we fix up
kconfig handling for this?
Regards,
Arend
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2015-11-02 12:36 CONFIG_WLAN getting disabled - copy-list usage Johannes Berg
2015-11-10 12:04 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2015-11-10 12:05 ` Johannes Berg
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