On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 16:36 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > 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. Yes, this was just a bigfix while I was looking at the code, I'll look into that too :) johannes
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