Re: CONFIG_WLAN getting disabled - copy-list usage

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On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 13:04 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 01:36 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > FYI, if anyone's using backports with a copy-list file that
> > restricts
> > the wifi drivers to their own, and is working against a recent tree
> > that includes the drivers/net/wireless/realtek/ move, then
> > CONFIG_WLAN
> > will end up getting disabled.
> > 
> > To fix that for now modify your copy-list to include
> > drivers/net/wireless/realtek/Makefile (and that file only).
> > 
> > Once Kconfig changes go in and the Makefile statement
> > 
> > obj-$(CONFIG_WLAN) += realtek/
> > 
> > changes to
> > 
> > obj-$(CONFIG_WLAN_REALTEK) += realtek/
> > 
> > (or similar) this issue will go away.
> 
> Thanks. It worked for me. As Kalle intends to move more drivers into 
> vendor subfolder, can we expect this will happen again. Can we fix up
> kconfig handling for this?
> 

I asked Kalle and he's planning to also add per-vendor Kconfig, at
which point this will not be needed any more. Like ethernet has,
really.

johannes
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