On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 9:34:07 AM CEST John Crispin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> why is this code located under package/ and not as a kernel patch under
>> target/linux/generic ?
could you please explain why you would prefer that (is your goal to
build it directly into the kernel instead of providing it as module
package)?

> So yes, if it needs to go in a different location, that would be fine.
> Based on your suggestion, I think the owl-loader.c code can be moved to:
> target/linux/generic/files/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/owl-loader.c
>
> and the module definition from the Makefile can be copied into:
> package/kernel/linux/modules/wireless.mk
starting with kernel 4.5 you will need to enable
CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_ATH and CONFIG_ATH9K_HW in the kernel if you want
it to pick up code from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/


Regards,
Martin

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