linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT

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Date:   Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:54:44 -0700
From:   Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...eaurora.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with
 LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

On 2019-09-09 08:44, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Also, you probably know this, but in this particular case you really
> should just get rid of your wext dependencies

This.

Particularly for one out-of-tree driver with which I'm intimately 
familiar there has been considerable recent work to make all WEXT code 
correctly conditional, and nothing in the Android support should be 
reliant upon WEXT.