On Tue, 20 May 2014, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 03:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > quite possibly a silly question (which has never stopped me before), > > but in perusing the PCIE code in the kernel source, i was looking for > > sample code to demo in a classroom setting and picked on > > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie, which i was *assuming* was > > PCIE-dependent -- specifically, i was going to demo the Advanced-N > > 6235 PCIE wifi card on an intel galileo board. > > > > but i thought it was a bit strange that the pcie/ subdirectory there > > doesn't seem to depend on PCIEPORTBUS. as a test, i deselected > > PCIEPORTBUS in a configuration and did a rebuild, and the source in > > the pcie/ directory was recompiled. > > > > am i misunderstanding the function of the kernel config variable > > PCIEPORTBUS? i notice that .../iwlwifi/Makefile includes the line: > > > > iwlwifi-objs += pcie/drv.o pcie/rx.o pcie/tx.o pcie/trans.o > > > > which simply compiles those files with no regard to dependency. can > > someone clarify this? thanks. > > The whole driver depends on CONFIG_PCI, maybe it should depend on > something more PCIe specific, but that wasn't easy to sort out, and > the APIs it needs aren't PCIe specific afaict. ok, i'll have to think about that for a few minutes. am i at least correct in my understanding that, technically, the kernel config option PCIEPORTBUS is supposed to control whether one wants basic PCIE support or not? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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