On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 06:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > note there is no module named "ath_cards", but my starting .config > indeed contains an entry for that as a module: > > $ grep CONFIG_ATH ../3.9.config > CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m > CONFIG_ATH_CARDS=m <-- there Ah, it was enabled when you ran localmodconfig? > # CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set > # CONFIG_ATH5K is not set > # CONFIG_ATH5K_PCI is not set > CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m > CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m > CONFIG_ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT=y > CONFIG_ATH9K=m > CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI=y > # CONFIG_ATH9K_AHB is not set > # CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS is not set > CONFIG_ATH9K_RATE_CONTROL=y > # CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC is not set > # CONFIG_ATH6KL is not set > $ > > and that symbol is defined in drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig as a > "menuconfig": > > config ATH_COMMON > tristate > > menuconfig ATH_CARDS <-- there > tristate "Atheros Wireless Cards" > ... snip ... > > so i'm just going to *guess* that the config procedure, when faced > with the line "CONFIG_ATH_CARDS=m", goes looking for a loaded module > called "ath_cards" or "ath9k_cards", doesn't find it, and turns off > that selection, consequently turning off *all* of my atheros > functionality. > > the Kconfig file claims that: > > "menuconfig ATH_CARDS > tristate "Atheros Wireless Cards" > depends on CFG80211 && (!UML || BROKEN) > ---help--- > This will enable the support for the Atheros wireless drivers. > ath5k, ath9k, ath9k_htc and ar9170 drivers share some common code, this option > enables the common ath.ko module which shares common helpers. > ^^^^^^ > > but the corresponding Makefile has: > > obj-$(CONFIG_ATH_COMMON) += ath.o > > where ath.o depends on ATH_COMMON, *not* ATH_CARDS. > > that just seems like a badly-written set of Kconfig structures and > dependencies. localmodconfig is set up to recognize options dependent on config menus. I'll have to take a look. Can you send me your .config file you started with, and what lsmod gives you. "lsmod > file". I'll see what broke. Oh, and one last thing. It's best to email me at rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx, as I don't always check my work email ;-) Thanks, -- Steve -- 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
