Re: [PATCH] net/wireless: CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT requires wireless extensions

2015-04-13 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 22:41 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > As Paul commented, it does work, and I have of course checked that my > patch fixes the problem without introducing other build failures. :-) Ok, I learned something. I'm always careful with "select" because it has some corner cases. Anyw

Re: [PATCH] net/wireless: CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT requires wireless extensions

2015-04-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 11 April 2015 08:16:51 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 00:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT symbol is selected by two drivers that > > make direct use of compat handlers for the wireless ioctls. > > However, this has no effect when the wireless ext

Re: [PATCH] net/wireless: CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT requires wireless extensions

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Bolle
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 08:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 00:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > config CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT > > bool > > depends on CFG80211 > > + select CFG80211_WEXT > > This doesn't work afaict because select won't go through if this is > selecte

Re: [PATCH] net/wireless: CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT requires wireless extensions

2015-04-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 00:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT symbol is selected by two drivers that > make direct use of compat handlers for the wireless ioctls. > However, this has no effect when the wireless extensions themselves > are disabled, and results in a link error:

[PATCH] net/wireless: CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT requires wireless extensions

2015-04-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
The CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT symbol is selected by two drivers that make direct use of compat handlers for the wireless ioctls. However, this has no effect when the wireless extensions themselves are disabled, and results in a link error: ERROR: "cfg80211_wext_giwrts" [drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/ori