From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211032475.6252.2.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CD993362-B1DE-4E4D-8A5B-E9E2AD7DA04C@holtmann.org> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2)
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On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:45 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> > The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not
> > used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext
> > ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch
> > makes them optional and schedules them for removal.
>
> it is used by HAL to classify WiFi network cards as net.80211 instead
> of net.80203 and so we do have an actual user. However HAL only tests
> for the existence of the directory wireless/.
Oh, ok, I didn't know that, thanks.
> Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch.
Sure, I'll take a look at that.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-17 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:12 [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 13:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-17 13:54 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-17 14:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-17 14:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-18 13:36 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-19 15:24 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 15:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-19 15:53 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 17:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-19 17:01 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-20 17:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-20 17:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-05-21 21:03 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-21 21:37 ` Johannes Berg
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