From: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question: /sys/class/net/*/wireless
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:40:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070303174008.GA5081@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172921257.4966.12.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:27:37PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> And related to that issue, /proc/net/wireless.
>
> Seeing that /sys/class/net/*/wireless has been around forever and offers
> the same information (actually, /proc/net/wireless tries to post-process
> quality values?? we can do that in sysfs too) I opt for killing it to
> minimize support requirements for cfg80211.
>
> Unless somebody objects I intend to send a feature removal schedule
> patch soon.
Well, it could be added to the schedule, but taken into account how
widely used /proc/net/wireless and wireless extensions are in user space
programs, I don't think this should be removed anytime soon, if ever. I
would object removal for at least the next five years..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-03 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-03 11:18 question: /sys/class/net/*/wireless Johannes Berg
2007-03-03 11:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-03 17:40 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-03-03 19:53 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-04 0:21 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-16 14:03 ` Jiri Benc
2007-03-16 17:07 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-21 14:12 ` Jiri Benc
2007-03-21 14:16 ` Johannes Berg
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