Hi guys!
Until now kernel 6.11 was compiled with CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT (Wireless Extensions support)
Starting of kernel 6.12 which has testing build in koji - the CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not configured. The testing early builds of kernel 6.13 are also with missing CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
Is this due to testing, or this is the new config which will became stable as 6.12 kernel being released as stable.
Somebody has any information?
Thanks!
I don’t see any 6.12.x in updates-testing
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=kernel&page=1
maybe @jforbes has time to shed some light on this.
Edit: I can’t see anything related to CONFIG_CFG80211 in the changelogs (kernel-6.12.1-200.fc41 | Build Info | koji and https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.12.1)
6.12.1 is already in koji and it is currently tested by people who participate in the kernel test week. You can consider this a stage before bodhi’s testing.
If the test week is considered fine, 6.12.1 (or maybe its successor 6.12.2) will enter bodhi, first in testing, then stable.
Bodhi is just the update system. The packages are in built in koji, but not everything in koji ends up in bodhi (not everything built is intended for the Fedora users to install/update), and a package of course is first build in koji before it can get to bodhi. So koji is always at first, but once it is build, it is not necessarily always immediately put to bodhi (if at all).
Hope that makes sense
Hi!
Here is short info and details about CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
Only for clarification:
At line 2142 in CONFIG of the build 6.12.1-200.fc41.x86_64 we can see
. # CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
Compared to 6.11.9-300.fc41.x86_64 at line 2117
CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y
I found it… here in the changelog
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2586129
This is pain for many wireless based software…
It might be appropriate to ask in the Fedora Kernel Matrix room why this change was made.