Commit 0052d812 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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wireless: disable wext sysfs by default 



This code has been on the list to remove for a long
time, so disable it by default, add a warning to its
Kconfig, and schedule it for removal in 3.5.

The only known dependency, hal, has not required it
since its 0.5.12 release, which was in early 2009
and hal has since been deprecated completely.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 4f17c48e

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> 


What:	Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS

	(in net/core/net-sysfs.c)

When:	After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches

	for enough time, probably some time in 2010.

When:	3.5

Why:	Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other

	ways (ioctls)

Who:	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

net/wireless/Kconfig

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@@ -121,15 +121,16 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT 


config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS

	bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files"

	default y

	depends on WEXT_CORE && SYSFS

	help

	  This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics

	  files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information

	  is available via the ioctls as well.



	  Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of

	  hal.

	  Say N. If you know you have ancient tools requiring it,

	  like very old versions of hal (prior to 0.5.12 release),

	  say Y and update the tools as soon as possible as this

	  option will be removed soon.



config LIB80211

	tristate "Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers"

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