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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-12-06 23:45:37 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-12-08 00:19:39 +0400
commit0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 (patch)
treea53037a4a3cb5f2b4a686ebf07eebe63b0bc7681 /net/wireless
parent4f17c48e3902c823e4af68d2de9546f5b707533d (diff)
downloadlinux-0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239.tar.xz
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/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig7
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"