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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Clyde McPherson <ccmcphe@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wireless and RFKILL
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:57:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109185750.GA2374@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD99096.5020105@verizon.net>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:19:02PM -0500, Clyde McPherson wrote:

> I build and use the compat-wireless source for use with SBC
> applications, and I have a question about the wireless portion of
> the code. Our SBCs do not have RFKILL capabilities, and since we use
> wireless we are forced to include it in our kernel due to the
> depends in wireless. What are the chances of adding #ifdef's for
> CONFIG_RFKILL on the code segments that require RFKILL, this way
> integrators like myself would not need to load and/or build the
> rfkill modules? This would also save us memory and storage that is
> limited on a SBC system.

Why can't you just turn-off CONFIG_RFKILL?

-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-09 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 18:19 Wireless and RFKILL Clyde McPherson
2010-11-09 18:53 ` Wireless and RFKILL, this way integrators like myself Johannes Berg
2010-11-09 18:57 ` John W. Linville [this message]

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