From bdfc7ef0e13a3c7a4e7a178fae5511081509b18d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:45:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 278635 b: refs/heads/master c: 0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 h: refs/heads/master i: 278633: 4652f13b23d56801b514ff3423396e0c319b7c8f 278631: 0e30c5d9dc59851fcfd1eaabda0ffbe156b9877d v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 3 +-- trunk/net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 ++++--- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 3f03f9582638..3cdd6f4ddeae 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 4f17c48e3902c823e4af68d2de9546f5b707533d +refs/heads/master: 0052d812599fb0327792b6c3f4257b26dcc13239 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3d849122b5b1..33f7327d0451 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) -When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches - for enough time, probably some time in 2010. +When: 3.5 Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other ways (ioctls) Who: Johannes Berg diff --git a/trunk/net/wireless/Kconfig b/trunk/net/wireless/Kconfig index 1f1ef70f34f2..2e4444fedbe0 100644 --- a/trunk/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/trunk/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -121,15 +121,16 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" - default y depends on WEXT_CORE && 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, like old versions of - hal. + Say N. If you know you have ancient tools requiring it, + like very old versions of hal (prior to 0.5.12 release), + say Y and update the tools as soon as possible as this + option will be removed soon. config LIB80211 tristate "Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers"