On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:25 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > config CFG80211 > - tristate "Improved wireless configuration API" > + tristate "cfg80211 - wireless configuration API" > + ---help--- > + cfg80211 is the Linux wireless LAN (802.11) configuration API. > + Enable this if you have a wireless device or if you just want > + to test the wireless subsystem (see mac80211_hwsim). This is not really correct, hwsim depends on mac80211, not cfg80211 -- the latter only implicitly. > cfg80211 > + allows for device drivers to register themselves with the > + networking subsystem and allows for userspace configuration > + through a generic netlink family for wireless called nl80211. Again, too much background information. Nobody cares at this point -- it should answer the question "will this help get my hardware working?" > + For more information refer to documentation on the wireless wiki: > + > + http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/cfg80211 > + > + When built as a module cfg80211 will be built as cfg80211.ko Again -- don't mention .ko. johannes
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