From 0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:45:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 3 +-- net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3d849122b5b1..33f7327d0451 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai 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 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" -- 2.39.5