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Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:52:20 +0000 (23:52 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:42:29 +0000 (16:42 -0800)
commit831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3
treec2da859edf8f5b709706c120e093e8b83d651206
parent2c90331cf5ed1d648a711b9483e173aaaf2c4a9b
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>
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