Re: Can't turn off SSB (CONFIG_SSB)?

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Monday 21 December 2009 02:16:34 Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> I'm building images for an EMBEDDED platform, and forcing CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=n, but I'm still seeing:
> 
> *
> * Sonics Silicon Backplane
> *
> Sonics Silicon Backplane support (SSB) [M/y/?] (NEW) n
> 
> Support for the Sonics Silicon Backplane bus.
> You only need to enable this option, if you are
> configuring a kernel for an embedded system with
> this bus.
> It will be auto-selected if needed in other
> environments.
> 
> The module will be called ssb.
> 
> If unsure, say N.
> 
> Sonics Silicon Backplane support (SSB) [M/y/?] (NEW) n
> 
> Support for the Sonics Silicon Backplane bus.
> You only need to enable this option, if you are
> configuring a kernel for an embedded system with
> this bus.
> It will be auto-selected if needed in other
> environments.
> 
> The module will be called ssb.
> 
> If unsure, say N.
> 
> Sonics Silicon Backplane support (SSB) [M/y/?] (NEW) 
> 
> 
> 
> And why does arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig nail up CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE?
> 
> This is with 2.6.27.38.
> 
> And what are the steps to figuring out the dependency that keeps forcing it on?  Something must be doing a "select SSB" but I'm not sure what.

CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE is just a management config entry that does not affect compilation.
It's just used to get the dependencies right. As long as CONFIG_SSB is n, no SSB code will
be built. CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE does just indicate whether it's possible to enable SSB. No more
and no less. It's just used as a dependency for the other modules that do a "select SSB".

The drivers that automatically select CONFIG_SSB are:

- bcm47xx MIPS platform
- bcm63xx MIPS platform
- b43 driver
- b43legacy driver
- b44 driver

-- 
Greetings, Michael.