From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com ([209.85.215.195]:42187 "EHLO mail-pg1-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726959AbeH3UKj (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:10:39 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id y4-v6so4092126pgp.9 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1535645266.25991.54.camel@gmail.com> (sfid-20180830_180751_563886_7FACE3CA) Subject: Re: Backports not building configured drivers From: Marlon Smith To: Johannes Berg , Luca Coelho , backports@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:07:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1535614402.5215.36.camel@sipsolutions.net> References: <1535407305.25991.36.camel@gmail.com> <203184ae0ffe879f79d8051807aa7f8326aaa311.camel@coelho.fi> <1535576146.25991.52.camel@gmail.com> (sfid-20180829_225550_611627_5288C10A) <1535614402.5215.36.camel@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks everyone for the replies.  The setting I was missing in the kernel was that I need to have PCI enabled.  I'm not sure why the backports menuconfig said PCI [=y], since it was not enabled in the kernel, but once I enabled it backports built the wifi driver correctly. Thanks again for the help! Marlon On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 09:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 13:55 -0700, Marlon Smith wrote: > > > > > Hey Luca, thanks for the reply!  The requirements in the backports > > 4.14 > > menuconfig are listed as follows: > > > > Depends on: WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK [=y] && RTL_CARDS [=m] > > && > > m && BP_MODULES [=y] && PCI [=y] > > > > I can find the symbol WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK in the backports 4.14 > > menuconfig but not in the 3.14 kernel's menuconfig.  Does this mean > > I > > can't use the driver with this kernel? > No, actually the symbol is enabled? See the [=y] above. > > The above looks like it is actually enabled though, so something else > must be going on? > > johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in