Re: 22bb1be4d27... breaks hal (and NM)

Robert Hancock
2008-07-24T20:13:28Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> : +config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
> : + bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files"
> : + default y
> : + depends on WIRELESS_EXT && 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 (we don't know of any).
> :
>
> So if you've enabled CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (and it correctly has
> default y) then things should continue to work OK. And the deprecation
> date of 2010 sounds reasonable. In fact generous, for us...
>
> So where's the problem?

The Kconfig message implies that nobody uses the files. It needs to be
updated to state that older versions of HAL do use them (and ideally
what version this was changed).