Return-path: Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:40662 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752411AbYEQOge (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 10:36:34 -0400 Cc: netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , linux-wireless , Linux Kernel list Message-Id: <31B1A5D6-8E8B-4148-860F-326FEEE5A3EE@holtmann.org> (sfid-20080517_163727_939962_16B2F279) From: Marcel Holtmann To: Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1211032475.6252.2.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:31 +0200 References: <1211026337.3827.25.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) <1211032475.6252.2.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-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/. > > Oh, ok, I didn't know that, thanks. > >> Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch. > > Sure, I'll take a look at that. saw your patch. Looks good to me. However what do we do with the non- mac80211 drivers that are using WEXT directly. These should be detected as net.80211, too. Regards Marcel