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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2014-12-30 23:52:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-30 16:42:29 -0800 |
| commit | 831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3 (patch) | |
| tree | c2da859edf8f5b709706c120e093e8b83d651206 /net | |
| parent | 2c90331cf5ed1d648a711b9483e173aaaf2c4a9b (diff) | |
Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"
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
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 22ba971741e5..29c8675f9a11 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 |