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iwlwifi,rtw88,rtw89: temporary disable build

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iwlwifi,rtw88,rtw89: temporary disable build

I tried to use LINUXKPI_VERSION to work out a plan which allows us to
compile linuxkpi_wlan and the LinuxKPI based wireless drivers without
interruption and flip a switch on the go.

I assume, with a lot of extra detours making the linuxkpi_wlan
implementation KPI changes compile time dependent would have been
possible and might be needed in the future.

One problem is that the various drivers currently in main were from
different sources or different hashes of the Linux wireless-testing.git
repository at last and we have no common base to use and
LINUXKPI_VERSION checks seem to slightly overlap.
Pulling drivers from official Linux version releases now will avoid
that problem and keep all drivers on the same KPI level in the future
which should avoid this problem.

The other problem is that the merges from the vendor branches are
independent and so the first merge will need to have the LinuxKPI
changes before but in between the (old) drivers will not compile
(unless linuxkpi_wlan can deal with both KPI versions).

For this time it was simply not possible to align all the changes
and instead we disable building the drivers over the merge window
only not to break intermediate builds. After LinuxKPI 802.11 was
updated and drivers are merged from vendor branches we will
re-attach them to the build.

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bzAuthored on Sun, Oct 27, 10:55 PM
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rGac1d519c01ca: LinuxKPI: 802.11: adjustments for v6.11 iwlwifi, rtw88 and rtw89
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