On Saturday 2009-01-03 04:03, Larry Finger wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed that the b43 module has a lot of dependencies, among: >> >> depends: pcmcia,mac80211,ssb,input-polldev,pcmcia_core,led-class,rfkill,rng-core,firmware_class >> >> Why does it depend on PCMCIA when I hear that b43 devices are also >> available in PCI variants? Similarly, is SSB needed on x86en which >> usually don't have such? > >B43 only depends on PCMCIA if that option is selected in the >configuration. Mine doesn't, but most distros will. Ssb is the PCI >driver for b43. If you have a PCI device, then you need it. Ssb was >split out because it is shared among b43, b43legacy and b44. It's because the Kconfig description says SSB is for embedded systems, come thinking WRT54, so I wondered what exactly requires SSB. Is it some bus within the wireless chip itself? -- 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
