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Bug 78094

Summary: hostap-driver is provided by mm-sources (and possibly others)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Skobel <skobel>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: mobile+disabled
Priority: High Keywords: InVCS
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Skobel 2005-01-15 07:59:43 UTC
The hostap driver is included in recent mm-sources kernels, so it should provide it so hostap-utils and the likes don't want to install hostap-driver

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mm-sources
2. emerge hostap-utils

Actual Results:  
Gentoo tries to emerge hostap-driver when mm-sources provided it already.

Expected Results:  
Gentoo should recognize that hostap-driver is provided by the kernel.
Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-15 12:31:48 UTC
I think we could use linux_chkconfig_present to check if the module is provided by the kernel we are compiling for .. the "providing" with portage is not very handy imo.
Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-01-15 15:30:13 UTC
Exactly how is that going to solve the dependency problem in hostapd and hostap-utils?
Comment 3 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-15 15:42:59 UTC
support has been added into the linux-mod.eclass now for CHECK_CONFIG="@OPTION:module"
what this does is, if OPTION in kernel is present, remove module from MODULE_NAMES.

This will help you elleviate the issue where it will build and install kernel drivers, over a kernel which already supports this, while still building any other modules or tools in the ebuild.

As I don't understand the setup of hostap properly, I wont comment on any other problems :)
Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-01-18 03:22:17 UTC
I've removed the dependency on hostap-driver from hostapd and hostap-utils. Closing as FIXED InCVS.
Comment 5 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-01-18 03:22:35 UTC
Really closing this time :)