Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751722AbaL3PDv (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:03:51 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50449 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750880AbaL3PDu (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:03:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:03:48 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Emmanuel Grumbach cc: Johannes Berg , Emmanuel Grumbach , Intel Linux Wireless , linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > > I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s thinkpad, and > > wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 interface has no > > wireless extensions. > > So why do you used them? > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be > using nl80211 based tools such as iw. My userspace wireless setup tool (wicd) is using wireless extensions, and even the most recent version uses solely that. I am pretty sure that's not the only tool in the world. > > Previous kernel that is known to work on this machine is 3.18-rc5. I > > can do a bisect if needed, but wanted to ask in case this is a known > > problem. > > 3.19 is the first kernel that actually removed the wireless extensions. That's userspace breakage I am pretty sure a LOT of people will be hitting. I don't think this fits into the way we are maintaining userspace compatibility at all. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/