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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>
wifi-calibration
Johannes Berg 2011-12-06 20:45:37 +01:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 4f17c48e39
commit 0052d81259
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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>

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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"