Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:52320 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbYEQOnC (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 10:43:02 -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: <31B1A5D6-8E8B-4148-860F-326FEEE5A3EE@holtmann.org> References: <1211026337.3827.25.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_154639_384202_6D3479C2) <1211032475.6252.2.camel@johannes.berg> <31B1A5D6-8E8B-4148-860F-326FEEE5A3EE@holtmann.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-T6B3pK3mESP+Tct2gqvD" Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:42:34 +0200 Message-Id: <1211035354.6252.4.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080517_164310_642970_494A710C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-T6B3pK3mESP+Tct2gqvD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 16:36 +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. > >> > >> 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. >=20 > saw your patch. Looks good to me. However what do we do with the non-=20 > mac80211 drivers that are using WEXT directly. These should be =20 > detected as net.80211, too. Yes, this was just a bigfix while I was looking at the code, I'll look into that too :) johannes --=-T6B3pK3mESP+Tct2gqvD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIVAwUASC7u2aVg1VMiehFYAQLflRAAw1vS+oHXO9cPa+Fd+XrN1+9ibKX/g52r bFBI5SkcPO+0HnA8lAfM3PvOAtzjchmIWLhmGtkRPoLspmR2/C/SjrGkZTKjcfH9 mFiBHmS0eT07qydOK2lypMicTyB2X7ljEMHzoDvcvbSvcg2MeNj5kmjJauykkEh+ sdZnETq+FWM5+eJE4RdirkqvZUgJGReGClshyx/sNMqL1718QGT3D45Rp4g1M7IF +zkhUJMZf7mhtQzv8afirsQm9UiAjglukV8o/PO+1imOeCBxcC2VhJjfMJ0vAhlo acqxs3/7FTQC1Q+3Vk43RRpfMW89Cuxy4KiHOSwZu9PDxuTSbm3YBur+HeqnzzdB uY4C7qPa40e06XnDeuaHiDbvWtyihCRX3FGgVBhpRO6fsdkf4eKVDYZSDs588lBz 3f5eaVpIWGN9VnWSxUbHUffNuiGUOrDLpQhtXD0PqT8hoojhDCChwRre9BZSgPCu NPgMfmQRvRULAstlTXhGkm/g2LsBW62qW4VMDufr8Q5+0jZt2D5Ht51OTD4KA6LH Z8U5igyOqhPhS25HKcaHkzNXFTDm7ZLeqb0juJSCgvEcxLXjsuNJjhPQVlZ2j5yg gGDHsH0DzhFum+lVbq3iERKSr0PodnqS4zq9Sip9x5Ql7fDoDCShwblqm+Wwp6Zh K1T4kZulkNw= =p6JT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-T6B3pK3mESP+Tct2gqvD--