On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:15:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? I think this is going to fall under the "userland ABI" category. We can make it a configurable option, but I don't think we are free to remove it completely since there is at least existing versions of HAL that use it. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
