Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:55806 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbZIAPxV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:53:21 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so126172fxm.37 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A9D436E.20509@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:53:18 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT kconfig entry References: <1251818566-9264-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1251818566-9264-6-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> In-Reply-To: <1251818566-9264-6-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Provide more documentation as to why its being deprecated. > > Cc: Johannes Berg > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- > net/wireless/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig > index 08f6733..521ef6a 100644 > --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig > +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig > @@ -98,8 +98,16 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT > bool "Wireless extensions" > default y > ---help--- > - This option enables the legacy wireless extensions > - (wireless network interface configuration via ioctls.) > + This option enables the legacy wireless extensions. > + Wireless extensions was the first 802.11 wireless configuration > + API used by the networking subsystem. You will not need this unless > + you have old userspace utilities or old wireless devices which > + have not yet been ported to cfg80211. I would like this to read "You will need this if you have old userspace utilities or old wireless devices that have not yet been ported to cfg80211." Larry