From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, me@bobcopeland.com,
mickflemm@gmail.com, kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 21:51:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD3A936.8070600@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339228530.4539.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 06/09/2012 09:55 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 17:51 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
>>
>> Turns out that standard Linux distributions leave CONFIG_EXPERT
>> enabled. This makes this option useless for wireless testing / research
>> purposes as we don't want certain features enabled on all kernel
>> builds. This adds a new CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT and makes a few
>> features depend on them.
>
> I'm not sure I see the point in CFG80211_EXPERT. All the features you're
> putting in there have nothing to do with cfg80211 at all anyway.
My understanding of this is that CFG80211_EXPERT was chosen because
cfg80211 provides the kernel side of the regulatory framework.
Gr. AvS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-09 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-09 0:51 [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 1/3] cfg80211: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 2/3] ath5k: replace modparam_all_channels with CONFIG_ATH5K_TEST_CHANNELS Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 3/3] ath9k: make CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED depend on CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 7:55 ` [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Johannes Berg
2012-06-09 19:51 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-06-11 7:32 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 14:40 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-11 14:45 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 15:46 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-14 19:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-15 8:16 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-15 8:21 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 11:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-15 16:09 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-16 12:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-18 15:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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