Re: [PATCH] backport: remove wext warning

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On 4/16/21 11:56 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

wireless extensions are being used less, so remove the
warning about them not working - most people probably
won't ever see any failures, and even if not see the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Thank you, I fixed it and applied. The offset in the patch was not changed.

  .../0010-add-wext-handlers-to-netdev/net_wireless_core.patch | 5 -----
  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/patches/0010-add-wext-handlers-to-netdev/net_wireless_core.patch b/patches/0010-add-wext-handlers-to-netdev/net_wireless_core.patch
index 18b50f12601b..6397a04e1e40 100644
--- a/patches/0010-add-wext-handlers-to-netdev/net_wireless_core.patch
+++ b/patches/0010-add-wext-handlers-to-netdev/net_wireless_core.patch
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@
  +#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
  +	if (!wdev->netdev->wireless_handlers)
  +		wdev->netdev->wireless_handlers = &cfg80211_wext_handler;
-+#else
-+	printk_once(KERN_WARNING "cfg80211: wext will not work because "
-+		    "kernel was compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. "
-+		    "Tools using wext interface, like iwconfig will "
-+		    "not work.\n");
  +#endif
   	wdev->wext.default_key = -1;
   	wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key = -1;


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