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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:57:44 +0200
From:	Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@...il.com>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jmalinen@...eros.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@...eros.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@...il.com> wrote:
> When ath9k is the only wireless driver included in the build
> WIRELESS_EXT configuration option becomes undefined. Because of that
> driver becomes essentially unusable as you can't actually connect to
> any WiFi network. By including WIRELESS_EXT into Kconfig we ensure
> that build with ath9k and without other drivers (having WIRELESS_EXT
> selected in their Kconfig) is actually usable.

WIRELESS_EXT is not required for configuring wireless on recent
kernels - in fact, the WEXT API is deprecated in favor of nl80211 now.

>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@...il.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> index d9c08c6..2573f77 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Kconfig
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ATH9K
>        select LEDS_CLASS
>        select NEW_LEDS
>        select ATH9K_COMMON
> +       select WIRELESS_EXT
>        ---help---
>          This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
>          Atheros IEEE 802.11n AR5008, AR9001 and AR9002 family
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