Can't compile ath(4) into kernel

[Adrian Chadd]

Please just create a PR for it.

I haven't tried compiling ath without AR5416 support so I have no idea
whether it'll work.


adrian

On 25 August 2010 22:03, Mikhail T. <mi+thunw at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
>  On 8/25/2010 8:27 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>> You are missing:
>>
>> options         AH_SUPPORT_AR5416       # enable AR5416 tx/rx descriptors
>>
> But I don't have the ar5416 chipset... Mine is AR2312... And it is an
> option, so should not it be optional? Anyway, I tried adding that option
> and the error is the same (did cleandepend && depend, saw ah.c
> recompiled anew).
>> For the 6.x -> 8 upgrade you are doing, I strongly suggest looking at the
>> changes to GENERIC across your upgrade. It would save you several e-mails to
>> the mailing list
> Thanks, I did that. After several attempts to fiddle with
> options/devices, the wireless section now looks like:
>
>    # Wireless NIC cards
>    device          wlan            # 802.11 support
>    options         IEEE80211_DEBUG # enable debug msgs
>    options         IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE # age frames in AMPDU reorder q's
>    options         IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH  # enable 802.11s draft support
>    device          wlan_wep        # 802.11 WEP support
>    device          wlan_ccmp       # 802.11 CCMP support
>    device          wlan_tkip       # 802.11 TKIP support
>    device          wlan_amrr       # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
>    device          ath
>    device          ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
>    device          ath_ar5212
>    #device         ath_rate_onoe
>    #options        AH_SUPPORT_AR5416       # enable AR5416 tx/rx
>    descriptors
>
> Generic simply uses the entire ath_hal, but ath_hal(4) suggests, that
> picking out a single driver should work...
>
>    -mi
>
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