On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Larry Finger wrote: > > > If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to > > > Linus for consideration. > > > > I wonder if the reaction would be like this one: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 > > > > :-) > > It would be a little like that. > > One thread of interest is https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/348. Commit > 24a0aa212ee2 ("cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable") made it > impossible to select the IPW2200. The patch to allow selecting the IPW2200, > which automatically selects CFG80211_WEXT has been added to wireless-drivers, > but it has not yet made it to mainline. Once it does, then choosing to build > the IPW2200 will provide a workaround. > > In my opinion, the need for the IPW2200 to have CFG80211_WEXT means that the > original commit will likely be reverted, but your voice will help. Ok, thanks a lot for another datapoint. I am sending revert patch to Linus tonight. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
