From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:28:41 +0200 Message-ID: <57793EAF-9BDF-43DE-8E59-4ADE7AFDC64D@holtmann.org> References: <1211026337.3827.25.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) <1211303731.6252.105.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , linux-wireless , Linux Kernel list To: Johannes Berg Return-path: Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:33801 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757588AbYETR2u (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 13:28:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1211303731.6252.105.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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/. >> >> 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=16037. Any further > objections to this patch? patch looks good to me. Regards Marcel