netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] ipw2200: select CFG80211

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Message-ID: <87oaqueiuo.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:55:11 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT

Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 19:10 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> Commit 24a0aa212ee2 ("cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable")
>> made it impossible to depend on CFG80211_WEXT. It does still allow to
>> select that symbol. (Yes, the commit summary is confusing.)
>> 
>> So make IPW2200 select CFG80211_WEXT, so that the ipw2200 driver can be
>> built again.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
>> ---
>> Johannes,
>> 
>> Building v3.19-rc1 for an outdated ThinkPad X41 left me without the
>> ipw2200 driver. It turns out this trivial patch is all that's needed to
>> make ipw2200 buildable again.
>> 
>> (A similar patch would be needed for the drivers behind Kconfig symbol
>> HERMES. Ie, orinico and friends.) 
>
> Yeah, config HERMES needs the same change.
>
> Kalle, do you want to take those through your tree, or should I fix it
> seeing that I introduced the bug in a sense?

To keep things simple I would prefer to take this through
wireless-drivers.git, if it's ok for you.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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