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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2014-12-31 01:52:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-31 03:42:29 +0300
commit831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3 (patch)
treec2da859edf8f5b709706c120e093e8b83d651206 /net/wireless
parent2c90331cf5ed1d648a711b9483e173aaaf2c4a9b (diff)
downloadlinux-831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3.tar.xz
Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"
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 <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 22ba971741e5..29c8675f9a11 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
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