Re: [PATCH] Make IWLCORE a silent option not to confuse iwl3945 users.

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:14:23AM -0700, Chatre, Reinette wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:29 PM,
> linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org  wrote:
> 
> > The iwl3945 (currently?) does not use iwlcore.  Either the iwlcore
> > documentation should change or the option should be silent.  This
> > patch follows the latter route.  IWL4965 already SELECTs IWLCORE,
> > so there should be no new problems.  Note that IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS and
> > IWLCORE_RFKILL have no suboptions for 4965, so they are grouped
> > together and given a description that includes "4965+" to indicate
> > they're not for the 3945 adapters.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy <jason@acm.org>
> 
> We are moving to a common library for the devices and changing
> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG to CONFIG_IWL4965_DEBUG undoes this work. Please be
> patient as we move to common code.
> 
> The numerous Kconfig variables help us to add and test the new features
> during development. They should not be there permanently.

I think it makes sense to make IWLCORE invisible, but this patch
seems not quite right.  I'm dropping it -- feel free to repost a
revised version.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com