Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751529AbaLaOIC (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:08:02 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59495 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbaLaOIA (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:08:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:07:56 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Arend van Spriel cc: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , 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" In-Reply-To: <54A3E1F1.7030807@broadcom.com> 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> <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD72E@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <54A3E1F1.7030807@broadcom.com> 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 Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Arend van Spriel wrote: > The thing with WEXT is that it will stay as is. So if tools like wicd > want to support new features like P2P it will need to make the switch. I > checked out wicd repo and found a number of iwconfig calls and they kick > off wpa_supplicant with wext driver. Unfortunately this is by no means just about wicd. I have already received a few off-list mails from people who were wondering why their home-made scripts / tools, which are running 'iwconfig' directly suddenly stopped to work, and that it was indeed fallout of WEXT going away. Given the very short time this has been in mainline, you can probably imagine the fireworks once this appears in major release. -- 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/