From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Do not select HW_RANDOM
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:51:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903301151.19140.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49d02577.Hcf9JT1rjzxhf7CH%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Monday 30 March 2009 03:50:47 Larry Finger wrote:
> Auto-depend on HW_RANDOM, rather than "select"ing it.
> This way the user has the choice to enable or disable HWRNG support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
>
> John, please queue for 2.6.31.
>
>
>
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig
> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config B43LEGACY
> depends on SSB_POSSIBLE && MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && HAS_DMA
> select SSB
> select FW_LOADER
> - select HW_RANDOM
> ---help---
> b43legacy is a driver for 802.11b devices from Broadcom (BCM4301 and
> BCM4303) and early model 802.11g chips (BCM4306 Ver. 2) used in the
> @@ -51,6 +50,13 @@ config B43LEGACY_RFKILL
> depends on B43LEGACY && (RFKILL = y || RFKILL = B43LEGACY) && RFKILL_INPUT && (INPUT_POLLDEV = y || INPUT_POLLDEV = B43LEGACY)
> default y
>
> +# This config option automatically enables b43 HW-RNG support,
> +# if the HW-RNG core is enabled.
> +config B43legacy_HWRNG
> + bool
> + depends on B43legacy && (HW_RANDOM = y || HW_RANDOM = B43legacy)
> + default y
> +
> config B43LEGACY_DEBUG
> bool "Broadcom 43xx-legacy debugging"
> depends on B43LEGACY
>
>
You also need to add #ifdefs to the code, don't you?
--
Greetings, Michael.
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2009-03-30 1:50 [PATCH] b43legacy: Do not select HW_RANDOM Larry Finger
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