Re: [RFC] Move brcm80211 to mainline

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 05:45:43PM -0700, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 08:20 PM, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> > With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to now
> > propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline.
> >
> > Since brcm80211 in staging-next has about ~250 patches that areen't in
> > wireless-testing yet, I've put together a patch to add a copy of the current
> > sources from staging-next into wireless-testing:drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211.
> >
> > The patch is somewhat large, so I've posted the patch at:
> >
> > 	http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=0001-wireless-testing-add-brcm80211.patch
> >
> > Only the necessary Kconfig and Makefile adjustments have been made (the sources
> > are unchanged from what's currently in staging-next).
> 
> The change to Kconfig seems to be wrong.  It would be better to respect 
> CONFIG_WLAN in drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig, like all other drivers do. 
>   Then drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig should be cleaned up to 
> remove unneeded dependencies on CONFIG_WLAN.

Definitely.  Thanks for pointing that out.

- Henry


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