Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753297AbYGXViO (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751864AbYGXVh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:37:58 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.235]:31473 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751849AbYGXVh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:37:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=kTdeLC7Ma0PC8JpF30GGDUOYSrY66QL5Gda2NHKkAUvTVTf0/6Tvf7BEFI5DZTSc7Q 3EszNd5CbgAmxGoWmdgrIScEfq+Viqk0AIfam05sYOAFElL4kN0dgPAcSYZHb3voYn5u WStli/+2zw1Jj5jI518MyTfKYDxY0IGxCQFgA= Message-ID: <5a4c581d0807241437o19b2ad8fha715f7dda5e61119@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:37:57 +0200 From: "Alessandro Suardi" To: "Robert Hancock" Subject: Re: 22bb1be4d27... breaks hal (and NM) Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Johannes Berg" , "Pierre Ossman" , "John W. Linville" , "Jean Tourrilhes" , LKML In-Reply-To: <4888E253.1020401@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4888E253.1020401@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 47 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> : +config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS >> : + bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" >> : + default y >> : + depends on WIRELESS_EXT && 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 (we don't know of any). >> : >> So if you've enabled CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (and it correctly has >> default y) then things should continue to work OK. And the deprecation >> date of 2010 sounds reasonable. In fact generous, for us... >> >> So where's the problem? > > The Kconfig message implies that nobody uses the files. It needs to be > updated to state that older versions of HAL do use them (and ideally what > version this was changed). I was also lured by the Kconfig text, so I changed the default, but have noticed no breakage so far. [asuardi@sandman linux-2.6.26-git11]$ grep WIRELESS_EXT .config CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y # CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS is not set [asuardi@sandman linux-2.6.26-git11]$ rpm -q hal hal-0.5.11-2.fc9.i386 Is it because Fedora 9 hal is new enough or because I didn't do anything to trigger the breakage ? Just curious. --alessandro "Give me love / Or give me hate Give me anything that's not just ok" (Sophia, 'Weightless') -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/