On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 18:35 +0200, Etienne Cordonnier wrote: > Hello, > I am using linux-backports in "integration mode" and managed to > backport wireless drivers from 5.4 to 4.9 (I needed to fix a few > Kconfig files, since integration mode does not work 100% out of the > box, but other than that everything seems to work). > > One issue I have is that the file > "patches/0004-disable-wext-kconfig.patch" is removing the option > WEXT_CORE in backports/net/wireless/Kconfig, meaning that there is no > config BACKPORT_WEXT_CORE defined. However the config > BACKPORT_CFG80211_WEXT depends on WEXT_CORE, so I cannot enable > BACKPORT_CFG80211_WEXT and support for the old iwconfig interface (the > iw tool works fine, though). Is it a known limitation, or am I missing > something? It's a known and more or less intentional limitation - there's no good way to do this because some wext bits need to be built into the kernel specifically for cfg80211. Just stop using wext. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
