Re: [PATCH -next] wireless: TI wlxxx depends on MAC80211

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Apr 17 2012 - 11:29:28 EST


On 04/16/2012 10:30 PM, Luciano Coelho wrote:

> Hi Randy,
>
> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:51 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> wl12xx build fails with many undefined symbol errors when MAC80211
>> and CFG80211 are not enabled, so make WLCORE and WL12XX depend
>> on MAC80211 (which already depends on CFG80211).
>>
>> Here are a few of the many build errors:
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Thanks for the patch!
>
>
>> --- linux-next-20120416.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/Kconfig
>> +++ linux-next-20120416/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>> config WL12XX
>> tristate "TI wl12xx support"
>> + depends on MAC80211
>> select WLCORE
>
> Do we really need this one? wl12xx selects WLCORE which in turn depends
> on MAC80211 (with your change below). Maybe we don't need this?

Hi,

[testing...]

The build fails if either one of these "depends" is omitted.


>> ---help---
>> This module adds support for wireless adapters based on TI wl1271,
>> --- linux-next-20120416.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/Kconfig
>> +++ linux-next-20120416/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>> config WLCORE
>> tristate "TI wlcore support"
>> - depends on WL_TI && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
>> + depends on WL_TI && GENERIC_HARDIRQS && MAC80211
>> depends on INET
>> select FW_LOADER
>> ---help---
>



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~Randy
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