[PATCH] b43: add default option to avoid duplicating device support with brcmsmac

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Fri Jan 13 14:20:27 EST 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:07:03PM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> 2012/1/13 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> > 2012/1/11 John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>:
> >> +config B43_BCMA_EXTRA
> >> +       bool "Support for devices also supported by brcmsmac"
> >> +       depends on B43_BCMA
> >> +       default n
> >> +
> >
> > Is this really *the* solution? I wonder if we can do whatever you're
> > trying to do in a better way? To let final users try both drivers
> > without recompiling kernel?
> 
> Another issue is that this should arguably be default y if brcmsmac is disabled.

Can you help by suggesting the correct Kconfig magic to implement that?

John
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