From 831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:52:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- net/wireless/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 22ba971741e5c9..29c8675f9a1189 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 -- GitLab