Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com ([209.85.218.43]:55386 "EHLO mail-oi0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751350AbaL3Wft (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:35:49 -0500 Message-ID: <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20141230_233552_746873_243271AE) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:35:46 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Jiri Kosina CC: "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+ References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/30/2014 03:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:41:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina 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. I use openSUSE 13.2, but I control my wireless with NetworkManager. For that reason, this is a non-issue for me. Larry