From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:55:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87oaqueiuo.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> References: <1419271817.2317.12.camel@tiscali.nl> <1419330521.6091.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paul Bolle , Stanislav Yakovlev , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1419330521.6091.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (Johannes Berg's message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:28:41 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Johannes Berg 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 >> --- >> 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 Building v3.19-rc1 for an outdated ThinkPad X41 left me without the 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