[PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: #340160 Enable RTL8187SE module in i386 kernel.

manoj.iyer at canonical.com manoj.iyer at canonical.com
Tue Mar 10 15:14:32 UTC 2009


> I see you have enabled the whole of STAGING to get this driver.
> Generally we have not been doing this, but instead fiddling with the
> include within the Makefile and Kconfig files.

Yes I was also not comfortable doing this, but 'fdr updateconfigs' did not 
give me much of a choice.

>
> We are generally including the Makefile and Kconfig files in the
> ubuntu/Makefile and ubuntu/Kconfig files and commenting them out from
> the staging ones.
>
> apw at dm$ grep staging ubuntu/Kconfig ubuntu/Makefile
> ubuntu/Kconfig:source "drivers/staging/rt2860/Kconfig"
> ubuntu/Kconfig:source "drivers/staging/rt2870/Kconfig"
> ubuntu/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_RT2860)            += ../drivers/staging/rt2860
> ubuntu/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_RT2870)            += ../drivers/staging/rt2870
>

Will take a look at doing that and resubmit.

--manjo

> See commit f3a63abff03643d708c09ab654f0865533498d1d for an example of
> all the steps.
>
>> +# CONFIG_SXG is not set
>> +# CONFIG_TRANZPORT is not set
>> +# CONFIG_USB_ATMEL is not set
>> +# CONFIG_USB_IP_COMMON is not set
>> +# CONFIG_VIDEO_GO7007 is not set
>> +# CONFIG_W35UND is not set
>>   CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y
>>   CONFIG_X86_E_POWERSAVER=m
>>   CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG=y
>
> -apw
>




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