On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:06 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > It's kinda strange though that you can select wireless drivers without > > selecting WIRELESS. Maybe the solution is as simple as making WLAN > > (drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig) depend on WIRELESS? > > Yes, I think that would be a very good start. On the other hand, of course, the whole WIRELESS thing is somewhat stupid. How about this? johannes From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: wireless: make wireless drivers select core It is somewhat non-sensical to allow selecting wireless drivers without showing wireless core code options, and since the wext refactoring this has made it possible to generate configurations that will not build. Avoid this and make wireless drivers select the wireless options. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2009-10-08 20:25:04.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig 2009-10-08 20:27:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ menuconfig WLAN bool "Wireless LAN" depends on !S390 + select WIRELESS default y ---help--- This section contains all the pre 802.11 and 802.11 wireless -- 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