[Buildroot] [PATCH] warpboard: linux.fragment: Do not use CONFIG_BRCMFMAC as built-in

Jörg Krause joerg.krause at embedded.rocks
Fri Jul 29 16:23:13 UTC 2016


Hi Fabio,

On Fr, 2016-07-29 at 10:45 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Selecting the driver CONFIG_BRCMFMAC as built-in causes some probe
> issues
> as we cannot guarantee that the brcmfmac driver will be probed after
> the
> rootfs has been mounted. The brcmfmac driver retrieves the firmware
> and
> nvram file from the rootfs, so the rootfs should be mounted first.
> 
> To avoid such issues let the CONFIG_BRCMFMAC be built as module,
> which is
> the original option in imx_v6_v7_defconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
> ---
>  board/freescale/warpboard/linux.fragment | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/board/freescale/warpboard/linux.fragment
> b/board/freescale/warpboard/linux.fragment
> index 736b9cd..892d0cb 100644
> --- a/board/freescale/warpboard/linux.fragment
> +++ b/board/freescale/warpboard/linux.fragment
> @@ -1,2 +1 @@
>  CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y
> -CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=y

Shouldn't this be "CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m"?

Jörg



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