Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:24:29AM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > On 9/6/19 4:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:24:00PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > > > In embedded environments the requirements are to be able to pick and > > > chose which features one requires built into the kerne

Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 2019-09-09 08:44, Johannes Berg wrote: Also, you probably know this, but in this particular case you really should just get rid of your wext dependencies This. Particularly for one out-of-tree driver with which I'm intimately familiar there has been considerable recent work to make all WEX

Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-09 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 07:24 -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > > > How is this patch applicable to stable kernels??? I'm not sure I even buy the arguments to get it into the regular kernel. > B) there is a shortcoming in _all_ kernel versions with respect to > hidden configurations options like this,

Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-09 Thread Mark Salyzyn
On 9/6/19 4:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:24:00PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: In embedded environments the requirements are to be able to pick and chose which features one requires built into the kernel. If an embedded environment wants to supports loading modules that have be

Re: [PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-06 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 12:24:00PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > In embedded environments the requirements are to be able to pick and > chose which features one requires built into the kernel. If an > embedded environment wants to supports loading modules that have been > kbuilt out of tree, there

[PATCH v2] net: enable wireless core features with LEGACY_WEXT_ALLCONFIG

2019-09-06 Thread Mark Salyzyn
In embedded environments the requirements are to be able to pick and chose which features one requires built into the kernel. If an embedded environment wants to supports loading modules that have been kbuilt out of tree, there is a need to enable hidden configurations for legacy wireless core fea