On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:45 +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/. > > Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch. I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further objections to this patch? johannes
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