On Thursday 09 August 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > yup, I understand the problem and I cannot suggest any acceptable solution, > apart from... > > > So, once you suggested that menuconfig should be changed to > > show options "greyed out" when deps are not met. Are there > > any patches available? Any starting point? > > No, nothing at all, sorry. > > I'm getting a _lot_ of build breakage out of SSB right now. > > > I wonder if we could do something lame like adding some text to the > BCM_whatever Kconfig files, right there on the top-level menu entry which > says "go look at CONFIG_SSB". Make it really obvious. > I did some patch that adds a hacky config option which whole purpuse is to describe what's going on. It's a bad hack, but for now it's probably better than nothing. How does this look like? Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/Kconfig =================================================================== --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-08-07 00:01:58.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-08-09 01:52:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -1452,10 +1452,31 @@ config APRICOT <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be called apricot. +config B44_DEP_HACK + bool + depends on SSB && SSB_PCIHOST && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE + default y + +config B44_ADVICE_HACK + bool "B44 for PCI not available. Read the help text of this option!" + depends on !B44_DEP_HACK + ---help--- + The Broadcom 440x/47xx driver for PCI devices can not be enabled, + because the required dependencies are not selected. + + In order to be able to select the Broadcom 440x/47xx PCI driver, you + need to enable the following options first: + + CONFIG_SSB found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/Sonics Silicon Backplane support + CONFIG_SSB_PCIHOST found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/Support for SSB on PCI-bus host + CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/SSB PCI core driver + config B44 tristate "Broadcom 440x/47xx ethernet support" - depends on HAS_IOMEM - select SSB + depends on SSB select MII help If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y @@ -1473,9 +1494,7 @@ config B44 config B44_PCI bool "Broadcom 440x PCI device support" - depends on B44 && NET_PCI - select SSB_PCIHOST - select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE + depends on B44 && SSB_PCIHOST && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE && NET_PCI default y help Support for Broadcom 440x PCI devices. Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/Kconfig =================================================================== --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/Kconfig 2007-08-02 16:47:33.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211/Kconfig 2007-08-09 01:46:39.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,8 +1,29 @@ +config BCM43XX_DEP_HACK + bool + depends on SSB && SSB_PCIHOST && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE + default y + +config BCM43XX_ADVICE_HACK + bool "BCM43xx PCI (mac80211) not available. Read the help text of this option!" + depends on !BCM43XX_DEP_HACK + ---help--- + The BCM43xx driver for BCM43xx PCI devices can not be enabled, + because the required dependencies are not selected. + + In order to be able to select the BCM43xx-mac80211 driver, you + need to enable the following options first: + + CONFIG_SSB found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/Sonics Silicon Backplane support + CONFIG_SSB_PCIHOST found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/Support for SSB on PCI-bus host + CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE found in menu: + Device Drivers/Sonics Silicon Backplane/SSB PCI core driver + config BCM43XX_MAC80211 tristate "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (mac80211 stack)" - depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on SSB && MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL select FW_LOADER - select SSB select HW_RANDOM ---help--- This is an experimental driver for the Broadcom 43xx wireless chip, @@ -10,9 +31,7 @@ config BCM43XX_MAC80211 config BCM43XX_MAC80211_PCI bool "BCM43xx PCI device support" - depends on BCM43XX_MAC80211 && PCI - select SSB_PCIHOST - select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE + depends on BCM43XX_MAC80211 && SSB_PCIHOST && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE default y ---help--- Broadcom 43xx PCI device support. @@ -24,8 +43,7 @@ config BCM43XX_MAC80211_PCI config BCM43XX_MAC80211_PCMCIA bool "BCM43xx PCMCIA device support" - depends on BCM43XX_MAC80211 && PCMCIA - select SSB_PCMCIAHOST + depends on BCM43XX_MAC80211 && SSB_PCMCIAHOST ---help--- Broadcom 43xx PCMCIA device support. @@ -45,7 +63,6 @@ config BCM43XX_MAC80211_PCMCIA config BCM43XX_MAC80211_DEBUG bool "Broadcom BCM43xx debugging (RECOMMENDED)" depends on BCM43XX_MAC80211 - select SSB_DEBUG if !SSB_SILENT default y ---help--- Broadcom 43xx debugging messages. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
