netdev - Re: [PATCH] wireless: Make COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES depend upon WEXT

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:18:54 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: Make COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES depend upon
 WEXT_CORE

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 13:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> WIRELESS_EXT is not the correct dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> ---
> 
> Wireless folks, just FYI, I will commit this to net-next-2.6
> 
>  net/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
> index b325094..e24fa08 100644
> --- a/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/Kconfig
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
>  config COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
>  	def_bool y
>  	depends on COMPAT
> -	depends on WIRELESS_EXT || WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
> +	depends on WEXT_CORE || WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES

You're right, thank you, I missed that at the time I changed this.

FWIW, it seems I broke this in 2.6.32! Guess nobody noticed since most
people actually do still have WIRELESS_EXT, especially distros.

johannes

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