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Re: [PATCH] compat-wireless: adapt moving brcm80211 to main area

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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> brcm80211 is no staging driver any more and can be found in the main
> area where all the other wireless drivers are now. There where some
> changes needed for the move.
> And BRCMFMAC does not depend on WEXT any more so remove that from
> config.
> BRCMFMAC does not build with kernel < 2.6.29, because
> ndev->netdev_ops = NULL and ndev->netdev_ops == &brcmf_netdev_ops_pri
> are not supported by the backport code for netdev_ops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
[...]
> --- a/scripts/driver-select
> +++ b/scripts/driver-select
[...]
> -       brcm80211)
> +       brcmsmac)
> +               disable_staging
> +               disable_bt_usb_ethernet_var
> +               select_drivers          CONFIG_BRCMUTIL CONFIG_BRCMFMAC
> +               select_brcm80211_driver CONFIG_BRCMSMAC
> +               ;;

On IRC someone reported problems building brcmsmac.ko, while trying to
help I fell over this:
Shouldn't that be CONFIG_BRCM*S*MAC in select_drivers line?
( Just FYI: The guy tried building linux-2.6.39 with
compat-wireless-3.2-rc1-1.tar.bz2 )

- Sedat -

> +       brcmfmac)
> +               disable_staging
>                disable_bt_usb_ethernet_var
> -               select_driver           CONFIG_NOTHING
> +               select_drivers          CONFIG_BRCMUTIL CONFIG_BRCMFMAC
> +               select_brcm80211_driver CONFIG_BRCMFMAC
>                ;;
>        zd1211rw)
>                select_driver           CONFIG_COMPAT_ZD1211RW
> --
> 1.7.4.1
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