On Sun, 2022-04-03 at 13:14 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > File net/wireless/Kconfig contains two blind configuration variables, > namely WEXT_PRIV and WEXT_SPY. If those variables are already in the > configuration file, they will be retained, but there is no way to > set them if they are missing other than to manually edit .config. > They should be enabled if either WIRELESS_EXT or CFG80211_WEXT are set > in the same manner as WEXT_CORE and WEXT_PROC. > > Personally, the setting of WEXT_SPY is not important; however, openSUSE > and Ubuntu both enable it in their default kernels. Other distros have > not been checked, but it is likely that they also enable that setting. > They're intentionally this way though - they're only selected by the (few) drivers that need them. Yeah, out of tree drivers lose out, but we don't really care? johannes
