Robert, All, On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:19:05PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm going to take a wild, uneducated stab at this, but it matches > what i was starting to suspect, anyway. this has nothing to do with > config processing, it has to do specifically with how the Kconfig > entries related to atheros cards were changed. > > here's the important part: > > $ git show 23c1d7f > ... snip ... > So, this patch introduce new Kconfig variable ATH_CARDS for belonging > to the "Atheros Wireless Cards" family; while ATH_COMMON becomes hidden > variable to express dependency on common Atheros code in ath.ko. Modules > that depend on this common code now express it by setting ATH_COMMON. > ... snip ... > -menuconfig ATH_COMMON > +config ATH_COMMON > + tristate > + > +menuconfig ATH_CARDS > > in short, a new variable, ATH_CARDS, was introduced that doesn't > appear in the earlier .config so, unsurprisingly, when you run "make > oldconfig", in the midst of all of the other manual answers, you have > to specify what you want done, and look at the default: > > $ make oldconfig > ... many manual choices ... > Atheros Wireless Cards (ATH_CARDS) [N/m/?] (NEW) <-- there's the culprit > ... snip ... > > so running the standard "yes '' | make oldconfig" is going to > deselect what looks like almost all ath9k-related stuff, simply > because a new, low-level dependency variable was introduced. > > am i making sense here? Not sure how streamline_config,pl should behave. Cc-ing Steven as the original author, maybe he has a better understanding on this situation. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
