Commit 831a39c2 authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina Committed by Linus Torvalds

Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

This reverts commit 24a0aa21.

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/343688Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2c90331c
...@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB ...@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB
Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N. Most distributions have a CRDA package. So if unsure, say N.
config CFG80211_WEXT config CFG80211_WEXT
bool bool "cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility"
depends on CFG80211 depends on CFG80211
select WEXT_CORE select WEXT_CORE
help help
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