On 05/30/2013 01:58 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 13:17 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
I am trying to help an openSUSE user that needs driver alx for his wired device.
I see that backports has the code, but it cannot be configured due to the
following statements in drivers/net/wireless/atheros/Kconfig:
I think you mean s/wireless/ethernet/, right?
Yes. Sorry for the typo.
config ALX
depends on !BACKPORT_KERNEL_2_6_28
depends on n
tristate "Qualcomm Atheros L1F Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on m
The "depends on n" is the culprit. Is this deliberate because the driver code is
not ready, or is this a bug?
This is an interesting side-effect of how the system works.
The ALX Kconfig is added by a patch
(patches/unified-drivers/network/0002-alx-make-kconfig/alx.patch) but
the *code* itself needs to be copied from an external tree when building
a backport tarball. To do this, the --extra-driver option in gentree.py
exists.
Are you using one of Luis's releases, or building an own backport
tarball?
This was for the tarball named backports-3.10-rc1-1.tar.bz2.
If the former, Luis should probably include ALX since it's his driver.
For the latter, see also the copy-list.alx file in the backports tree.
Thanks for the info,
Larry
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