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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-05-17 01:40:19 +0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-06-05 23:32:15 +0400 |
| commit | 10bab00afed042c1a38ed5ffb135e2aea5ce1277 (patch) | |
| tree | bf8f1117797d8e1aed78e5e796f949e8a4e6a510 | |
| parent | 35b2a113cb0298d4f9a1263338b456094a414057 (diff) | |
| download | linux-10bab00afed042c1a38ed5ffb135e2aea5ce1277.tar.xz | |
cfg80211: deprecate CFG80211_WEXT
Almost all wireless tools have transitioned to
or at least added compatibility with nl80211 so
there's no real need for CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
any more. Mark it for removal, and also change
the default to not be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/Kconfig | 1 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0258e3d06280..dec901554ef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -440,6 +440,19 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> ---------------------------- +What: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT +When: as soon as distributions ship new wireless tools, ie. wpa_supplicant 1.0 + and NetworkManager/connman/etc. that are able to use nl80211 +Why: Wireless extensions are deprecated, and userland tools are moving to + using nl80211. New drivers are no longer using wireless extensions, + and while there might still be old drivers, both new drivers and new + userland no longer needs them and they can't be used for an feature + developed in the past couple of years. As such, compatibility with + wireless extensions in new drivers will be removed. +Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> + +---------------------------- + What: g_file_storage driver When: 3.8 Why: This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage. diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 8dba3c60794a..4d2b1ec6516f 100644 --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT bool "cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility" depends on CFG80211 select WEXT_CORE - default y help Enable this option if you need old userspace for wireless extensions with cfg80211-based drivers. |