From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:44916 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755057AbZHNVNy (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:13:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 28/34] wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entry From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net In-Reply-To: <1250281559-13041-29-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1250281559-13041-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1250281559-13041-29-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hn7XpkLG1ZBV8T6LfzwO" Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:13:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1250284432.4411.7.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-hn7XpkLG1ZBV8T6LfzwO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:25 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > config CFG80211 > - tristate "Improved wireless configuration API" > + tristate "cfg80211 - wireless configuration API" > + ---help--- > + cfg80211 is the Linux wireless LAN (802.11) configuration API. > + Enable this if you have a wireless device or if you just want > + to test the wireless subsystem (see mac80211_hwsim). This is not really correct, hwsim depends on mac80211, not cfg80211 -- the latter only implicitly. > cfg80211 > + allows for device drivers to register themselves with the > + networking subsystem and allows for userspace configuration > + through a generic netlink family for wireless called nl80211. Again, too much background information. Nobody cares at this point -- it should answer the question "will this help get my hardware working?" > + For more information refer to documentation on the wireless wiki: > + > + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211 > + > + When built as a module cfg80211 will be built as cfg80211.ko Again -- don't mention .ko. johannes --=-hn7XpkLG1ZBV8T6LfzwO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKhdOJAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaboEQAJdjlXcCx1koKBBILl3iblcQ SpxS6hrCjyRPe8Gq+cIqaQdDqC+U7nZnlYMLwgTViC16lVD+Hdt/0Z7Z0dQ6299m xFXkFW8mcpYt9gXNOdRNcB5q3b925oRQafgZ3l6g5A4QLwYO9lsaZxeL/TkegvfK YtpcnYCxAtBboWNUrjyntER1n7ElUW38tD7RrGg+14H9N1pN8XHfhmqnJlVILE8+ betLkOfRFi7uKsiU4c3HPdNL7eFcrbVE9tz2kpAumFbk/+8ZlMGVvqN1mHPZpOBR RuTqPD2+7Ihxla0B1jXSx8S4EqDGyzQq/6IIuC89KpJbRGcOQXoGKxQdui0dkE6W xf+TRW8B7nJkgP0BxqzwpdIrdTsdA7XFRd5aiF/Pd652pvjFsamfg55Qz3EdO5o3 D5E0T91E9gXcahpxS0JTcHZPOoQCzKXbipQp1b8njkgnTJUfxUFYK1SGJQtNize3 lNQ0bfcPPTtsUAW44RrzCdZOhKM8gpcNs9RHwckJitSiusDeKmiTemMyfUjhHWtY MQiBkDedoQAyuyHFY2Ir7HgpH+lc1dv9szwQbUqIBtTkj2dOu6FZwmTTsQ5rdfS9 I+EpoAKmhZhRg4locfHDopwTAtMBBzNKfDY4oK49z6Rr7ZUd8E+3ghTu5iCs1ZEu w3g8Ukz8522Zj08JOdSx =PDQL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hn7XpkLG1ZBV8T6LfzwO--