On 3/1/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This patch
* kills NET_RADIO
* adds two new wireless driver menus for pre-802.11 and 802.11
* makes WIRELESS_EXT visible (to avoid the arguments we had in
commit c1783454a31e05b94774951b0b5d1eb9075ebfb4)
* changes everything that depended on NET_RADIO to select WIRELESS_EXT
By removing NET_RADIO, these changes pave the way to making wireless
extensions optional when cfg80211 can fully take over for some drivers
and you don't have any older drivers that still require wext.
These conflict with other changesets (notable Ivo's) but they should be
easy to respin once those get in. This also depends on removing wext
netlink, but it's trivial to do them w/o removing netlink wext of
course. Though I think that the rtnetlink wext option shouldn't be under
drivers so I'd move it in the case we don't want to remove it.
Makes sense.
--- wireless-dev.orig/net/wireless/Kconfig 2007-03-01 14:18:51.854246483 +0100
+++ wireless-dev/net/wireless/Kconfig 2007-03-01 14:19:19.614246483 +0100
@@ -29,3 +29,11 @@ config NL80211
If unsure, say Y.
+config WIRELESS_EXT
+ bool "Wireless extensions"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ This compiles code for the wireless extensions.
+
+ Say N if you can unless you have external modules
+ that rely on it.
I'd say we put more descriptive text here and explain a little of how
cfg80211 is supposed to replace it with nl80211.
Luis
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