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Re: [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT

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On 06/09/2012 09:55 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 17:51 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Turns out that standard Linux distributions leave CONFIG_EXPERT
>> enabled. This makes this option useless for wireless testing / research
>> purposes as we don't want certain features enabled on all kernel
>> builds. This adds a new CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT and makes a few
>> features depend on them.
> 
> I'm not sure I see the point in CFG80211_EXPERT. All the features you're
> putting in there have nothing to do with cfg80211 at all anyway.

My understanding of this is that CFG80211_EXPERT was chosen because
cfg80211 provides the kernel side of the regulatory framework.

Gr. AvS


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