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Jiri Kosina 831a39c241 Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" 
This reverts commit 24a0aa212e.

It's causing severe userspace breakage.  Namely, all the utilities from
wireless-utils which are relying on CONFIG_WEXT (which means tools like
'iwconfig', 'iwlist', etc) are not working anymore.  There is a 'iw'
utility in newer wireless-tools, which is supposed to be a replacement
for all the "deprecated" binaries, but it's far away from being
massively adopted.

Please see [1] for example of the userspace breakage this is causing.

In addition to that, Larry Finger reports [2] that this patch is also
causing ipw2200 driver being impossible to build.

To me this clearly shows that CONFIG_WEXT is far, far away from being
"deprecated enough" to be removed.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1857010
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/343688

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-30 16:42:29 -08:00
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6lowpan net/6lowpan: Remove FSF address from GPL statement. 2014-12-05 12:43:04 +01:00
9p
802
8021q vlan: Add ability to always enable TSO/UFO 2014-12-12 10:58:53 -05:00
appletalk new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
atm put iov_iter into msghdr 2014-12-09 16:29:03 -05:00
ax25 new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
batman-adv batman-adv: avoid NULL dereferences and fix if check 2014-12-23 23:13:37 -05:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Fix accepting connections when not using mgmt 2014-12-24 20:02:00 +01:00
bridge Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2014-12-05 20:56:46 -08:00
caif put iov_iter into msghdr 2014-12-09 16:29:03 -05:00
can can: fix spelling errors 2014-12-07 21:22:05 +01:00
ceph libceph: specify position of extent operation 2014-12-17 20:09:52 +03:00
core net: Generalize ndo_gso_check to ndo_features_check 2014-12-26 17:20:56 -05:00
dcb
dccp net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr 2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00
decnet new helper: memcpy_to_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:51 -05:00
dns_resolver
dsa Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
ethernet
hsr
ieee802154 Merge tag 'master-2014-12-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2014-12-09 18:12:03 -05:00
ipv4 openvswitch: Fix vport_send double free 2014-12-23 23:57:31 -05:00
ipv6 tcp6: don't move IP6CB before xfrm6_policy_check() 2014-12-22 16:48:01 -05:00
ipx switch ipxrtr_route_packet() from iovec to msghdr 2014-11-24 04:28:49 -05:00
irda irda: Convert function pointer arrays and uses to const 2014-12-10 15:33:16 -05:00
iucv net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr 2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00
key new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
l2tp ip_generic_getfrag, udplite_getfrag: switch to passing msghdr 2014-12-09 16:28:22 -05:00
lapb
llc llc: Make llc_sap_action_t function pointer arrays const 2014-12-10 15:21:24 -05:00
mac80211 mac80211: free management frame keys when removing station 2014-12-17 14:00:17 +01:00
mac802154 mac802154: use goto label on failure 2014-12-05 14:18:42 +01:00
mpls mpls: Fix allowed protocols for mpls gso 2014-12-23 23:57:31 -05:00
netfilter netlink/genetlink: pass network namespace to bind/unbind 2014-12-27 03:07:50 -05:00
netlabel
netlink genetlink: A genl_bind() to an out-of-range multicast group should not WARN(). 2014-12-29 16:31:49 -05:00
netrom new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
nfc Merge tag 'master-2014-12-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2014-12-09 18:12:03 -05:00
openvswitch genetlink: pass only network namespace to genl_has_listeners() 2014-12-27 02:20:23 -05:00
packet packet: Fixed TPACKET V3 to signal poll when block is closed rather than every packet 2014-12-22 15:41:15 -05:00
phonet new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
rds rds: Fix min() warning in rds_message_inc_copy_to_user() 2014-12-15 11:49:09 -05:00
rfkill Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
rose new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
rxrpc net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr 2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-10 15:48:20 -05:00
sctp net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr 2014-12-10 22:41:55 -05:00
sunrpc NFS client updates for Linux 3.19 2014-12-10 15:13:13 -08:00
switchdev bridge: call netdev_sw_port_stp_update when bridge port STP status changes 2014-12-02 20:01:22 -08:00
tipc tipc: fix broadcast wakeup contention after congestion 2014-12-10 14:45:33 -05:00
unix put iov_iter into msghdr 2014-12-09 16:29:03 -05:00
vmw_vsock put iov_iter into msghdr 2014-12-09 16:29:03 -05:00
wimax
wireless Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" 2014-12-30 16:42:29 -08:00
x25 new helper: memcpy_from_msg() 2014-11-24 04:28:48 -05:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2014-12-08 21:30:21 -05:00
compat.c put iov_iter into msghdr 2014-12-09 16:29:03 -05:00
Kconfig net: introduce generic switch devices support 2014-12-02 20:01:20 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
socket.c [regression] chunk lost from bd9b51 2014-12-19 07:13:21 -05:00
sysctl_net.c