netdev - Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them

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Message-Id: <31B1A5D6-8E8B-4148-860F-326FEEE5A3EE@holtmann.org>
Date:	Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:31 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them

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

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