On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 23:52 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > This reverts commit 24a0aa212ee2dbe44360288684478d76a8e20a0a. > > It's causing severe userspace breakage. Namely, all the utilities > from wireless-utils which are relying on CONFIG_WEXT (which means > tools like 'iwconfig', 'iwlist', etc) are not working anymore. There > is a 'iw' utility in newer wireless-tools, which is supposed to be > a replacement for all the "deprecated" binaries, but it's far away > from being massively adopted. > > Please see [1] for example of the userspace breakage this is causing. > > In addition to that, Larry Finger reports [2] that this patch is also > causing ipw2200 driver being impossible to build. > > To me this clearly shows that CONFIG_WEXT is far, far away from being > "deprecated enough" to be removed. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1857010 > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/343688 So [2] already entered mainline as commit dddd60220f41 ("ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"). As this revert has now been applied, I think my patch should now be reverted too. But I don't think it's a good idea to submit a patch, however trivial, in the last hours before new year. So I'll have a look into this in the first days of next year. > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> > --- > net/wireless/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig > index 22ba971..29c8675 100644 > --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig > +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig > @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB > Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N. > > config CFG80211_WEXT > - bool > + bool "cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility" > depends on CFG80211 > select WEXT_CORE > help Paul Bolle -- 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
