> On 12/30/14 23:52, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > 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. > > Hi Jiri, > > You mentioned in the discussion and I quote: "*If* wireless maintainers think > otherwise, I'll send a revert request to Linus for consideration.". However, > you did not wait for any response from the wireless maintainers nor from the > author of the patch you are reverting. > Seems like an overreaction to me though personally I do not disgree with the > revert itself.
Not to mention the patch has already been applied on Linus's tree... > > Regards, > Arend > > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1857010 > > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/343688 > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina<jkos...@suse.cz> > > --- > > net/wireless/Kconfig | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index > > 22ba971..29c8675 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
