drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig

File Facts

System: Linux kernel
Corpus path: drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig
Extension: [no extension]
Size: 1506 bytes
Lines: 54
Domain: Driver Families
Bucket: drivers/net
Inferred role: Driver Families: build/configuration rule
Status: atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.

Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.

Dependency Surface

No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config CARL9170
	tristate "Linux Community AR9170 802.11n USB support"
	depends on USB && MAC80211
	select ATH_COMMON
	select FW_LOADER
	select CRC32
	help
	  This is the mainline driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices.

	  It needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw), which can be downloaded
	  from our wiki here:
	  <https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170>

	  If you choose to build a module, it'll be called carl9170.

config CARL9170_LEDS
	bool "SoftLED Support"
	default y
	depends on CARL9170
	depends on MAC80211_LEDS
	help
	  This option is necessary, if you want your device's LEDs to blink.

	  Say Y, unless you need the LEDs for firmware debugging.

config CARL9170_DEBUGFS
	bool "DebugFS Support"
	depends on CARL9170 && DEBUG_FS && MAC80211_DEBUGFS
	default n
	help
	  Export several driver and device internals to user space.

	  Say N.

config CARL9170_WPC
	bool
	depends on CARL9170 && (INPUT = y || INPUT = CARL9170)
	default y

config CARL9170_HWRNG
	bool "Random number generator"
	depends on CARL9170 && (HW_RANDOM = y || HW_RANDOM = CARL9170)
	default n
	help
	  Provides a hardware random number generator to the kernel.

	  SECURITY WARNING: It's relatively easy to eavesdrop all
	  generated random numbers from the transport stream with
	  usbmon [software] or special usb sniffer hardware.

	  Say N, unless your setup[i.e.: embedded system] has no
	  other rng source and you can afford to take the risk.

Annotation

Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/net.
Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.