[RFC: 2.6 patch] clarify the WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS help text

Adrian Bunk
2008-07-24T12:42:57Z

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:58 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > From commit 22bb1be4d27...:
> >
> > "The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not used
> > by anyone."
> >
> > Can't have been much of an investigation as HAL uses these to determine
> > if a card is a wireless one. Without this option, you cannot get
> > wireless support in NetworkManager, stranding most laptops.
>
> Bzzzzt. You suck. Go check again. Hint: try hal's git tree.

Can everyone agree on the patch below?

> johannes

cu
Adrian

<-- snip -->

Current Hal uses the CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS files, so don't claim
there were no known users and recommend to enable the option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

b685f62718b947264657c298e5ee5b2149200f68
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index ab015c6..e582432 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
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).
+ If unsure, say Y.