From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755707Ab2IUOjw (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:39:52 -0400 Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:2925 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755200Ab2IUOjv (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:39:51 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: 06151B78-6688-425E-9DE2-57CB27892261 Message-ID: <505C7C27.2050108@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:39:35 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Wei Ni" cc: swarren@wwwdotorg.org, krakesh@nvidia.com, ldewangan@nvidia.com, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: tegra: enable brcmfmac in defconfig References: <1348217700-12309-1-git-send-email-wni@nvidia.com> <1348217700-12309-6-git-send-email-wni@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <1348217700-12309-6-git-send-email-wni@nvidia.com> X-WSS-ID: 7C42A47A3MK37091618-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/21/2012 10:55 AM, Wei Ni wrote: > New options enabled: > * CFG80211_WEXT: (dependency) > * BRCMFMAC: wlan driver, enable as module. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Ni > --- > arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig > index adcf3c2..04b18ea 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig > +++ b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig > @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ CONFIG_BT_BNEP=y > CONFIG_BT_HIDP=y > CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB=m > CONFIG_CFG80211=y > +CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y Any particular reason for enabling this? The driver does not specifically need it. The option only allows use of WEXT dependent user-space tools like iwconfig and iwlist. At least it is not needed by brcmfmac driver hence it does not select it. You indicate there is a dependency. Could you elaborate? Gr. AvS