From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT kconfig entry
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:58:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090901165804.GF7650@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251820483.24846.0.camel@johannes.local>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:54:43PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> > > @@ -98,8 +98,16 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT
> > > bool "Wireless extensions"
> > > default y
> > > ---help---
> > > - This option enables the legacy wireless extensions
> > > - (wireless network interface configuration via ioctls.)
> > > + This option enables the legacy wireless extensions.
> > > + Wireless extensions was the first 802.11 wireless configuration
> > > + API used by the networking subsystem. You will not need this unless
> > > + you have old userspace utilities or old wireless devices which
> > > + have not yet been ported to cfg80211.
> >
> > I would like this to read "You will need this if you have old
> > userspace utilities or old wireless devices that have not yet been
> > ported to cfg80211."
>
> Don't those "select WIRELESS_EXT" anyway so you don't have a choice?
Old userland won't do that.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 15:22 [PATCH 0/7] wireless: few kconfig updates Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] wireless: update top level wireless driver entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/7] wireless: update wireless kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:31 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-01 15:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 3/7] wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:37 ` Larry Finger
2009-09-01 15:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/7] wireless: update reg debug " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 5/7] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:53 ` Larry Finger
2009-09-01 15:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-01 16:58 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 6/7] wireless: update mac80211 " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 15:22 ` [PATCH 7/7] wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu Luis R. Rodriguez
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