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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2011-12-06 20:45:37 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-12-07 15:19:39 -0500 |
| commit | 0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 (patch) | |
| tree | a53037a4a3cb5f2b4a686ebf07eebe63b0bc7681 /net | |
| parent | 4f17c48e3902c823e4af68d2de9546f5b707533d (diff) | |
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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: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 1f1ef70f34f2..2e4444fedbe0 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" |