From: Jiri Kosina Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:52:20 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.1/prcm-dts-mfd-syscon-fix~340 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=831a39c241e1254b6ddb8dea3144e77b9bbf44b3;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed