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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone
To: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@gmail.com>
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	Jouni Malinen <jmalinen@atheros.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@gmail.com> wrote:
> When ath9k is the only wireless driver included in the build
> WIRELESS_EXT configuration option becomes undefined. Because of that
> driver becomes essentially unusable as you can't actually connect to
> any WiFi network. By including WIRELESS_EXT into Kconfig we ensure
> that build with ath9k and without other drivers (having WIRELESS_EXT
> selected in their Kconfig) is actually usable.

WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent
kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now.

>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> index d9c08c6..2573f77 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ATH9K
> ? ? ? ?select LEDS_CLASS
> ? ? ? ?select NEW_LEDS
> ? ? ? ?select ATH9K_COMMON
> + ? ? ? select WIRELESS_EXT
> ? ? ? ?---help---
> ? ? ? ? ?This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
> ? ? ? ? ?Atheros IEEE 802.11n AR5008, AR9001 and AR9002 family
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