From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:15:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1211303731.6252.105.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1211026337.3827.25.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5JHaC54Ie6AKHA8YnikR" Cc: netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , linux-wireless , Linux Kernel list To: Marcel Holtmann Return-path: In-Reply-To: (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-5JHaC54Ie6AKHA8YnikR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:45 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Johannes, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > it is used by HAL to classify WiFi network cards as net.80211 instead =20 > of net.80203 and so we do have an actual user. However HAL only tests =20 > for the existence of the directory wireless/. >=20 > Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch. I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D16037. Any further objections to this patch? johannes --=-5JHaC54Ie6AKHA8YnikR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUASDMHMqVg1VMiehFYAQIRCRAAha1B0TCHwCXxxe0Is+3Ld007hKV2n8kk 0VF3N4Q2bLxKemj4rlyIBltc7fNy0qkNMwybjv0L+Qr8MievBdog31t+nSs5+UnA twu2OcjYPdDqYwEq/Umfhlsv775z7+E/qdQ1YUVJUrCKHL2M2WKVuNhXJJXX2OJL PjO3xio5r6A0KiIZpbTgUsIK0rKbM0ATvlswNFnuG0efuydWfnNoLjoMQifWtrfJ LgR/XziOdO/nmmAaygARjt7uSW9/uI384L8Y6ar4C1eoYmgZXzk4PRak4X8GcSaj rpVTzdH9SKGQ6J+oBot2YPKAFitivpEGlF2IVxje6suQlYZ0CMdGC2NyPDiW/MTv VjMtQH33unXxzz0WXaAJBARjbGVqdhVaadJWNRmws3iF+3uHe2aW3l92IpsFPYjy 4b47xAcZisvL8mvDTqaCKqOQRKBbj1fKiYE6p1CwHomzdm/9MGmNOjmu2Vjrohc1 nKHiMQfqbUwFqeYweU1MW4hv03M+jDv2GjFGJYSEjByL3AB9cI2GeqB2mKA6W34H WgG8UrTBIWqupkjGxPb2Q7U3JcoOF/R2ikMr4vCmQLY1m3se2Bni42d+0jYjIn+J NAnMJ1nzUMpzs0YLUFti62xzI7HQuOonjezxTVA76m0oe/2UaJotlytAhmaH5dMK kWNWwyhmyOg= =r45u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5JHaC54Ie6AKHA8YnikR-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html