Johannes Berg schreef: > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:17 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > >> Remove CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS >> Nothing uses this, and it breaks the kernel build if a wireless device is >> used with a unsupported type of bus. >> Verified this with a grep. >> > > I don't really care about the symbol and I'm in favour of removing it if > it is useless, but I don't understand the rationale. How does enabling > this cause anything to fail? > > johannes > Enabling this doesn't cause anything to fail, but my wireless router doesn't have a pci bus, but instead a native SSB, so CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS isn't selected. This in turn causes wext-common.o to not be built, so I get missing symbols and a build breakage. That's why I made wext-common.o depend on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT instead of CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS. Since nothing else uses CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS I decided to kill that symbol.
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