MuRata WiFi Module with Marvell 88w8686

[Holger Schurig]

> > A nice patch that disables all of mesh with a Kconfig option
> > (and thus reduces the size of libertas.ko considerable)
> > would get an ACK from me :-)
>
> Probably not a horrible idea; but we should see how big the
> patch is first,

I've made a patch myself :-)

This patch saves about 10 kB in .text and 288 bytes in .data:

 129542    4012      28  133582   209ce mesh/libertas.ko
 119279    3724      28  123031   1e097 nomesh/libertas.ko

   8142     840       0    8982    2316 mesh/libertas_cs.ko
   8134     840       0    8974    230e nomesh/libertas_cs.ko

   9516     700       8   10224    27f0 mesh/libertas_sdio.ko
   9516     700       8   10224    27f0 nomesh/libertas_sdio.ko

  10333     860       0   11193    2bb9 mesh/usb8xxx.ko
  10333     860       0   11193    2bb9 nomesh/usb8xxx.ko

The patch itself is 883 lines long.


> and how much maintenance all the #ifdefs would be

For me, it seems maintainable. YMMV :-)