From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] [PATCH] Split up rndis_host.c Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:49:49 -0800 Message-ID: <200801081049.49764.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <11983602942818-git-send-email-bjd@jooz.net> <200801080319.23299.david-b@pacbell.net> <1199813561.6762.13.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jussi Kivilinna , bjd-a1rhEgazXTw@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1199813561.6762.13.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > I see that the rndis_wext.c Kconfig won't kick in unless the > > 802.11 stuff is available ... what additional dependencies > > does that imply for a fatter rndis_host module? > > No extra modules are currently required for just plain wext [1]. In the > future, we hope to migrate stuff to cfg80211 though, which is a separate > module. Hmmm. Well, go the current route then ... but come up with a good plan to split it up later, so that connecting a typical non-wireless RNDIS device won't incur such needless extra modules. - Dave > johannes > > [1] mostly because all the code is simply compiled into the kernel... >