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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3d849122b5b1..33f7327d0451 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> 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 <johannes@sipsolutions.net> diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 1f1ef70f34f2..2e4444fedbe0 100644 --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/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" |