On Tue, 2018-08-28 at 07:42 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote: > On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 15:01 -0700, Marlon Smith wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > Hi Marlon, > > > > > > I'm using backports 4.14 to build for a custom kernel 3.14. That > > kernel includes the RT2800 wifi driver, and if I configure > > backports > > with menuconfig to build a newer version of that driver it works > > perfectly. However, if I configure backports to build the RTL8821 > > driver, which my kernel otherwise does not include, the driver > > never > > gets built and backports shows it as not selected the next time I > > run > > menuconfig. > > > > Is this expected behaviour? Is there something I can do to force > > this > > driver to build? > This probably means that your 3.14 kernel doesn't have some of the > dependencies needed by the RTL8821 driver from 4.14. Check the list > of > dependencies for the driver and make sure they are included in your > 3.14 kernel. > > -- > Luca. Hey Luca, thanks for the reply! The requirements in the backports 4.14 menuconfig are listed as follows: Depends on: WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK [=y] && RTL_CARDS [=m] && m && BP_MODULES [=y] && PCI [=y] I can find the symbol WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK in the backports 4.14 menuconfig but not in the 3.14 kernel's menuconfig. Does this mean I can't use the driver with this kernel? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
