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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2007-03-05 11:30:27 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-05 18:57:51 +0300
commitcc2cccaec88d422e628e6b588078e1dbdc241896 (patch)
treec009ce88aff59426ddf289f8ed02dd63fa5f32d1 /Documentation
parentde320199c0f425503eef17883a3ba90464bf35ba (diff)
downloadlinux-cc2cccaec88d422e628e6b588078e1dbdc241896.tar.xz
[PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal
Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really used, this schedules it for removal. The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -304,3 +304,15 @@ Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
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+
+What: Wireless extensions over netlink (CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK)
+When: with the merge of wireless-dev, 2.6.22 or later
+Why: The option/code is
+ * not enabled on most kernels
+ * not required by any userspace tools (except an experimental one,
+ and even there only for some parts, others use ioctl)
+ * pointless since wext is no longer evolving and the ioctl
+ interface needs to be kept
+Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+---------------------------