Re: [PATCH] mt76x0: build driver only as module

From: Stanislaw Gruszka
Date: Fri Aug 03 2018 - 05:28:28 EST


On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 12:19:20PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > There are various symbols that conflicts with mt7601u.
> > Due to that kernel will not build with allyesconfig.
> > For now limit the driver to be build only as module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the quick patch!
>
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig
> > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config MT76x2_COMMON
> >
> > config MT76x0U
> > tristate "MediaTek MT76x0U (USB) support"
> > - depends on MAC80211
> > + depends on MAC80211 && m
>
> But this feels like an ugly hack to me. Isn't there a better way to fix
> this? (I don't have time to investigate the error in detail right now.)

Yes, rename symbols names. And I will do this, just wanted to provide
quick fix for the problem.

Moreover seems the same thing should be done for mt7601u to avoid build
errors and perhaps with mt76 :-(

So I'm going to rename functions.

Regards
Stanislaw