Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751606AbaLaLLC (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:11:02 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:39192 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbaLaLLA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:11:00 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,862,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="435296118" From: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" To: Arend van Spriel , Jiri Kosina CC: Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov , "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: RE: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" Thread-Topic: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" Thread-Index: AQHQJINHASoXmCzt7UaJrD69LgOnMJypadiAgAAh5BA= Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:10:54 +0000 Message-ID: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD72E@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.184.70.11] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On 12/30/14 23:52, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > 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. > > Hi Jiri, > > You mentioned in the discussion and I quote: "*If* wireless maintainers think > otherwise, I'll send a revert request to Linus for consideration.". However, > you did not wait for any response from the wireless maintainers nor from the > author of the patch you are reverting. > Seems like an overreaction to me though personally I do not disgree with the > revert itself. Not to mention the patch has already been applied on Linus's tree... > > Regards, > Arend > > > [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 -- 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/