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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:28:41 +0100
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Cc: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
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To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
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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@tiscali.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 Building v3.19-rc1 for an outdated ThinkPad X41 left me without the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?

johannes