Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751968AbaL3Wmw (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:42:52 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54074 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751748AbaL3Wmv (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:42:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:42:48 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Larry Finger cc: Borislav Petkov , "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "egrumbach@gmail.com" , "peter@hurleysoftware.com" , "ilw@linux.intel.com" , "Berg, Johannes" Subject: Re: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ In-Reply-To: <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> 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, Larry Finger wrote: > > > If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to > > > Linus for consideration. > > > > I wonder if the reaction would be like this one: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75 > > > > :-) > > It would be a little like that. > > One thread of interest is https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/348. Commit > 24a0aa212ee2 ("cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable") made it > impossible to select the IPW2200. The patch to allow selecting the IPW2200, > which automatically selects CFG80211_WEXT has been added to wireless-drivers, > but it has not yet made it to mainline. Once it does, then choosing to build > the IPW2200 will provide a workaround. > > In my opinion, the need for the IPW2200 to have CFG80211_WEXT means that the > original commit will likely be reverted, but your voice will help. Ok, thanks a lot for another datapoint. I am sending revert patch to Linus tonight. -- 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/