On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 10:07 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > why would you revert this? It is obviously the correct change to actually select CFG80211_WEXT. > > I don't know about obvious, but yeah, I think the select in this case > is actually the better idea anyway. Obviously it wasn't obvious to me! My reasoning was that the "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT" commit was _solely_ a workaround for the breakage introduced by that other patch. And since that one is now reverted the workaround wasn't needed anymore. Besied, I thought we try to avoid select-ing symbols that can also be set manually. As that makes it more likely to trigger circular dependency problems in the kconfig tools, doesn't it? > We could make the CFG80211_WEXT help message be very negative so that > people aren't encouraged to select it even if they can, but then if > they need the ipw driver it gets selected because of that. Because the > ipw driver is probably the more important of the two if you just > happen to have old hardware but are upgrading yout software (and > anybody who recompiles their own kernel is obviously doing the > latter). Side note: am I correct in thinking that there's some successor to CFG80211_WEXT and that the ipw2200 driver could, at least in theory, be ported to that successor? (ipw2200 hardware appears to be a bit old, so probably no one would care enough to actually do that.) net/wireless/kconfig doesn't mention anything like that, so probably I'm just confused. 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
