From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:60880 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754804AbZHNVJR (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:09:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 30/34] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT kconfig entry From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net In-Reply-To: <1250281559-13041-31-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1250281559-13041-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1250281559-13041-31-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-EOXhcESbB92P4B+MUPmi" Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:09:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1250284155.4411.2.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-EOXhcESbB92P4B+MUPmi Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:25 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Provide more documentation as to why its being deprecated. >=20 > Cc: Johannes Berg > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > net/wireless/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >=20 > diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig > index 60dd09e..b07ed2c 100644 > --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig > +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig > @@ -86,8 +86,16 @@ 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 cannot agree with this wording -- all current tools still use wext unless you go really experimental. johannes --=-EOXhcESbB92P4B+MUPmi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKhdJ3AAoJEODzc/N7+QmasvkQAM6mXJxwNAIxCpUFnFvL4sqV GdIfKHI/AHVImy188r+opAMwrKR5mqSvqpFhxextXX26RBrdtxpn1RyRncmcnMB0 B78IaAXA+ub9Vw/T+F1Q/JFcpgK28dNl/0Qu1KIsQVGlXv339jGBqi6rrSMkGv6+ Se1GaKicjCZ/MJXQ+WWJfRs8KwIMbyf+h94yA3aeJA3fT//zATyWaqBfCPbG/sAS ARdivwjGbJ0Ju/vEGkmFumPgWykdQhQljDHq0nj9N8irjw57AsUM8RfdX5l4R/el AJtrz7aQlKvjQIBwpPHUMUycVCtSWSdPMiVV3luS8OyGo/yzuDGGbGhLAp8QEABb Ni3bT87bIH8m9NNIGWkGH62/hQV793iEV67AreplH2ha3rd/xXmT6UMea2CPcohi wKiMbHtOPHaGkmC9t0Q6HiWabIlvPmMmrmolgN64FcpeCQxNjlot+PasbD+pNkJW nDdKZTEShApUamK7UEd4Dl5GXsDs+U1U6OVqMMJUspbE+Q+TCgHuEhCvWNvQpSgd TP8W7v08Gjnr8o7QmEVB+LXckSVP95k+vZdyy/+kaPbJ5KC8INqv5JcyNQ0A6Hjs Ifu3eF98nFZ/k3x5MGnNCutkxg6W223rMMN8Fe4k+1/c/BD6dRsjCv+wvU0PEizd RHfGYMKgY3YQNcFPlKTp =YdjQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EOXhcESbB92P4B+MUPmi--