Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next] wireless: TI wlxxx depends on MAC80211 | From | Luciano Coelho <> | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:52:16 +0300 |
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On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:29 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 04/16/2012 10:30 PM, Luciano Coelho wrote: > > > Hi Randy, > > > > On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:51 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> > >> > >> wl12xx build fails with many undefined symbol errors when MAC80211 > >> and CFG80211 are not enabled, so make WLCORE and WL12XX depend > >> on MAC80211 (which already depends on CFG80211). > >> > >> Here are a few of the many build errors: > >> > > > > [...] > > > >> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> > >> Cc: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> > >> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org > >> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> > >> --- > > > > Thanks for the patch! > > > > > >> --- linux-next-20120416.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/Kconfig > >> +++ linux-next-20120416/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/Kconfig > >> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ > >> config WL12XX > >> tristate "TI wl12xx support" > >> + depends on MAC80211 > >> select WLCORE > > > > Do we really need this one? wl12xx selects WLCORE which in turn depends > > on MAC80211 (with your change below). Maybe we don't need this? > > Hi, > > [testing...] > > The build fails if either one of these "depends" is omitted.
Yeah, thanks for testing. I guess it's because, as Johannes said, select doesn't check the dependencies of the selected module.
Johannes, thanks for the explanation.
-- Cheers, Luca.
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