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build: deprecate Wireless Extensions

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Wireless Extensions is the legacy, ioctl-based kernel interface used
to configure Wi-Fi cards. It has been deprecated and replaced by the
cfg80211/nl80211 API since 2007, as it doesn't support modern Wi-Fi
encryption and technologies. Mark it as deprecated, so that we can get
rid of some unmaintained and untested code in a future release.
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Beniamino Galvani 2025-11-12 10:27:11 +01:00
parent a2d147366c
commit de1fcdcc72
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NEWS
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@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION USE!
the 802.1X certificates and keys set in the connection.
* Introduce a libnm function that can be used by VPN plugins to check
user permissions on certificate and keys.
* The support for Wireless Extensions is deprecated and will be
removed in a future release. Wireless Extensions are now disabled by
default.
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NetworkManager-1.56

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meson.build
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@ -333,7 +333,11 @@ enable_iwd = get_option('iwd')
assert((not enable_iwd) or enable_wifi, 'Enabling iwd support requires Wi-Fi support as well')
config_h.set10('WITH_IWD', enable_iwd)
enable_wext = get_option('wext')
wext = get_option('wext')
if wext == 'true'
error('Wireless Extensions support is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use -Dwext=force to keep using it')
endif
enable_wext = (wext == 'force')
config_h.set10('HAVE_WEXT', enable_wext)
# Checks for libdl - on certain platforms its part of libc

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meson_options.txt
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ option('hostname_persist', type: 'combo', choices: ['default', 'suse', 'gentoo',
option('libaudit', type: 'combo', choices: ['yes', 'yes-disabled-by-default', 'no'], value: 'yes', description: 'Build with audit daemon support. yes-disabled-by-default enables support, but disables it unless explicitly configured via NetworkManager.conf')
# features
option('wext', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'Enable or disable Linux Wireless Extensions')
option('wext', type: 'combo', choices: ['true', 'false', 'force' ], value: 'false', description: 'Enable or disable Linux Wireless Extensions (deprecated). wext support will be removed in a future release, don\'t rely on this.')
option('wifi', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'enable Wi-Fi support')
option('iwd', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'enable iwd support (experimental)')
option('ppp', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'enable PPP/PPPoE support')