>>>>> "etienne" == etienne champetier <[email protected]> writes:

Russell> The question becomes: Is this acceptable for OpenWrt?  If
Russell> not, is there a better way?

Russell> I understand there is a convention that the userspace parts
Russell> depend on the kernel parts, so that the kernel parts are
Russell> auto-selected upon selecting the user-space parts, e.g. in
Russell> iptables and ppp.  And, we are happy to do that here.
Russell> However, in the batman-adv case, people who want it are going
Russell> to go looking in the Kernel section and not in the Network
Russell> section and might not even think to look for batctl unless it
Russell> is grouped together as it is now.  Thoughts?

etienne> Why not simply put a comment about batctl in kmod-batman-adv
etienne> ?

That's possible.  But it still means a substantial change in behavior
for users.  Previously, selecting kmod-batman-adv alone gave you
batctl (similar to the userspace parts of madwifi, iirc).  I'm afraid
users are going to miss batctl unless there is some stronger linkage.


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