Commit 326a10b9 authored Nov 09, 2020 by Johannes Berg

wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

WDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks such
fundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,
and similar. As such, it was basically always unusable as is.

Back in 2016, in commit 8f205423 ("wireless: deprecate WDS
and disable by default") I disabled it and made the Kconfig option
only available under CONFIG_EXPERT to turn it back on. Since then,
nobody has complained about that, and given the severe limitations
with the code, it's unlikely anyone would have a reason to.

Remove the Kconfig option now, so we can clean up the associated
code in follow-up patches.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.7d1e44c50e21.I2c0a1705fd6491d9ba3400c88415ee2c4832ae98@changeid

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 70c5e40c

drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

+0 −13

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		@@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ menuconfig WLAN

		if WLAN

		config WIRELESS_WDS
		bool "mac80211-based legacy WDS support" if EXPERT
		help
		This option enables the deprecated WDS support, the newer
		mac80211-based 4-addr AP/client support supersedes it with
		a much better feature set (HT, VHT, ...)

		We plan to remove this option and code, so if you find
		that you have to enable it, please let us know on the
		linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org mailing list, so we can
		help you migrate to 4-addr AP/client (or, if it's really
		necessary, give up on our plan of removing it).

		source "drivers/net/wireless/admtek/Kconfig"
		source "drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig"
		source "drivers/net/wireless/atmel/Kconfig"

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