Hi Julian, > > What might be interesting is for drivers to somehow indicate they > > support it? But you wouldn't necessarily want drivers to "select MESH", > > so it'd probably have to be something like not allowing mesh to be > > turned on if no driver is turned on that has it? But that makes it > > complicated again, so it's all probably not worth it. > > IIRC, the standard way to do things like that is something like: > > config HAVE_MESH_DRIVER > default n > > config RANDOM_DRIVER > select HAVE_MESH_DRIVER > > config MESH > default y if HAVE_MESH_DRIVER > > That way it's default on if drivers are selected which have mesh > support but still user selectable (either to disable or if out-of-tree > drivers want it). Ah, yes, I was thinking something like that but forgot about the "default ... if" syntax and gave up trying to reproduce it with "select" and "depends on" :-) That seems like the best of both worlds? Thomas? johannes -- 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
