Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:19:45 -0600 | From | Stephen Warren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: tegra: enable brcmfmac in defconfig |
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On 09/21/2012 08:39 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 09/21/2012 10:55 AM, Wei Ni wrote: >> New options enabled: >> * CFG80211_WEXT: (dependency) >> * BRCMFMAC: wlan driver, enable as module. >> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com> >> --- >> arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig | 2 ++ >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig >> b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig >> index adcf3c2..04b18ea 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig >> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig >> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ CONFIG_BT_BNEP=y >> CONFIG_BT_HIDP=y >> CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB=m >> CONFIG_CFG80211=y >> +CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y > > Any particular reason for enabling this? The driver does not > specifically need it. The option only allows use of WEXT dependent > user-space tools like iwconfig and iwlist. At least it is not needed by > brcmfmac driver hence it does not select it. > > You indicate there is a dependency. Could you elaborate?
"Dependency" probably isn't correct.
However, the intent of tegra_defconfig is to provide a useful configuration for Tegra boards. Without the ability to use iwconfig/iwlist, enabling the wireless driver doesn't seem useful; how would someone configure the wireless connection?
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