From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Hide if bcm43xx-mac80211 is builtin
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:56:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412235621.GB3470@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704112155.14204.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:55:08PM -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 21:20, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Since the two drivers use different firmware and the (currently)
> > softmac-based driver will evolve into bcm4301 with support for older
> > hardware, I'd prefer to leave this one out.
> >
> This is just to make allyesconfig work. (wasn't Andrew Morton telling you to
> do this?) Both drivers can still be compiled as modules.
OK, I see that now. FWIW, the namespace changes of the old bcm43xx
driver to bcm4301 would fulfill the same goal. But I suppose this
patch is fine for the time being.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 23:01 [PATCH] bcm43xx: Hide if bcm43xx-mac80211 is builtin Michael Wu
2007-04-12 0:01 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-12 3:42 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-12 1:20 ` John W. Linville
2007-04-12 1:55 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-12 23:56 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-04-12 2:23 ` Pavel Roskin
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