Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752078AbaL3WwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:52:25 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54160 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752033AbaL3WwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:52:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:52:20 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Linus Torvalds 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" , Larry Finger Subject: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" In-Reply-To: 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 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 --- net/wireless/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 22ba971..29c8675 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 -- 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/