On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:06, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:00:11PM -0500, Christopher Harrington wrote: >> Hello list! Is there a reason why the RTL8187SE driver depends on the >> kernel having module support, even though it builds and runs fine if I >> remove the dependency from the Kconfig file? > > I think there are global symbols in the driver such that if you build it > into the kernel, it can conflict with other kernel modules. It's a tristate which allows you to build it into the kernel even without the dependency on modules being removed. So if you're correct, the Kconfig is still wrong and it should only allow you to build it as a module, not simply depend on CONFIG_MODULES. > Try a 'make allyesconfig' build after changing that option to see if > there are build errors. Or even better yet, look at the changelog > comments for the Kconfig file for the driver to see why that dependancy > is there (hint, that will tell you why this is the way it is...) > I don't have the git tree sitting on a local drive, is there a way I could view this via HTTP? I'm not familiar with kernel development, sorry. -- -Chris Harrington Phone: 612.326.4248 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
