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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-12-06 20:45:37 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-12-07 15:19:39 -0500
commit0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 (patch)
treea53037a4a3cb5f2b4a686ebf07eebe63b0bc7681
parent4f17c48e3902c823e4af68d2de9546f5b707533d (diff)
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: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt3
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig7
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 3d849122b5b..33f7327d045 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -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>
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 1f1ef70f34f..2e4444fedbe 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -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"