[RFC Quantal] Move dependncy on crda/wireless

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Jun 11 14:53:17 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:24:53PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Since introducing the split of having linux-image with a
> limited number of modules and linux-image-extra containing
> all those not in that, most wireless modules are now in
> the extra package.
> The only remaining are some libraries under net/wireless
> which probably could move as well.
> Then the dependency on crda could actually move from
> the main package to the extra package. And that way
> a virtual installation (which only pulls in the main
> package) would not install the crda package (as some long
> standing bug asks for).

This seems reasonable to me. Afaict no wireless drivers are included in
the main package anyway, so I don't really see a point in including the
core wireless support there.

One comment on the particulars however ...

> diff --git a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> index 81df862..57327fb 100644
> --- a/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> +++ b/debian.master/control.d/generic.inclusion-list
> @@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ net/sched/*
>  net/sctp/*
>  net/tipc/*
>  net/wanrouter/*
> -net/wireless/*

You can probably also remove net/mac80211/*, as it is also exlusively
related to wireless driver functionality.

Seth





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