Control: retitle -1 R8188EU should be enabled on all architectures
On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 17:10 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Source: linux
> Severity: normal
>
> Hey,
>
> I recently ran into an issue with an usb wifi dongle (rtl8188) not being
> support by an ARM board, while the same debian kernel version supports it fine
> on x86.. Underlying issue here is that CONFIG_R8188EU is only enabled on x86,
> but not on other architectures which also feature USB.
>
> The same probably goes for a bunch of other devices, which one could happily
> plug into an non-x86 board but only has its driver build on x86..
This is what we generally do for USB and PCI drivers. However, we
usually enable staging drivers only for x86 at first because they are
often non-portable and may fail to build elsewhere.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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