Re: linux-next: Tree for November 2 (wireless/wl1271)

[John W. Linville]

Helps if I actually Cc: Luca...

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:44:49PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:01:35AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Changes since 20091030:
> > 
> > 
> > wl1271 build fails when CONFIG_INET=n.
> > Should this driver depend on INET?
> > 
> > Why does this driver, unlike all other wireless drivers,
> > want to use register_inetaddr_notifier()?
> > 
> > wl1271_main.c:(.text+0x271052): undefined reference to `unregister_inetaddr_notifier'
> > wl1271_main.c:(.text+0x2714d7): undefined reference to `register_inetaddr_notifier'
> 
> Yeah, that driver is doing some filtering based on IPv4.
> 
> Luca, is that necessary?  If so, then we need a patch like the one below...?
> 
> John
> 
> From ba823accfad68151d80503ff5fb04c049c9eadc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:43:32 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] wl1271: depend on INET
> 
> wl1271_main.c:(.text+0x271052): undefined reference to `unregister_inetaddr_notifier'
> wl1271_main.c:(.text+0x2714d7): undefined reference to `register_inetaddr_notifier'
> 
> Driver is doing some filtering based on IP addresses...
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig
> index 33de7fa..785e024 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ config WL1251_SDIO
>  config WL1271
>  	tristate "TI wl1271 support"
>  	depends on WL12XX && SPI_MASTER && GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> +	depends on INET
>  	select FW_LOADER
>  	select CRC7
>  	---help---
> -- 
> 1.6.2.5
> 
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