Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:41562 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbYEQNzY (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 09:55:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them From: Johannes Berg To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , linux-wireless , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) References: <1211026337.3827.25.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eQT+wYqySa7VBCfpCOZp" Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:54:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1211032475.6252.2.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_155606_441032_867A69F3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-eQT+wYqySa7VBCfpCOZp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:45 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Johannes, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > it is used by HAL to classify WiFi network cards as net.80211 instead =20 > of net.80203 and so we do have an actual user. However HAL only tests =20 > 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. johannes --=-eQT+wYqySa7VBCfpCOZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUASC7jmaVg1VMiehFYAQJU7Q//dzg2z8o2MoN9NDpNTsy6AXspidCEExDl HLAipu/S95C/rZmjPOEobGUMJgFj01gUSLNXgByh8Te3RyayfnB4rEQeqhwZ0Hqn G6p8LYcB4xmL+PO8EV5TNxEq2w8a4pmlFGRu5onxlOWnlJDcJHvlGBfNoQbfQtJm ppmRSsddcdJtV7dznLRJJ/KM3TEDiNpmjRdKRbmBBUsZn105ftj7N6F7ulBBD5Ep ogVUfJYAU0lCD78OAw/hNR0dOYtsFMVR9SGmqVFOvO1YtaPJ8vXCT6Ft0a0ieGnB GgP1oCBQaXwIolYYn/1VKNDE5si7J0HFXxistDf1TtFiIJyldnxOXYSGcCDKXYl/ yd0ecd4kmySlJsT/Y8b/7LuR3OOckrdCg/B3VWoWdHtoO3Pcewf5YZ1OBb70l1l5 E1a2a8GwMEVQ5E9tJOBkKlRv3owIUNf1DAvU09K09DydCyxgOFZAkUTbOKn4b1MY AH/wvkQgO1lKn1LOQCMqm1412MJewrUWCycmlxGCJLrtOoUfEGseZt0WlagH609b ka3njAZX8tWdOBlvF30wtk2s7mXYZuK/nr5tMY+8UA0I+HJKi/NXV0k23L/KqzFE FTVIKCz1qCU8RraThn6+dTZyysG9FCDKvwB2n3DPHiYVy3JE1lzphTOJJfiqesgE QP5Lgo/TzWo= =HnoH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eQT+wYqySa7VBCfpCOZp--