From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
WDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks such
fundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,
and similar. As such, it was basically always unusable as is.
Back in 2016, in commit 8f20542386c5 ("wireless: deprecate WDS
and disable by default") I disabled it and made the Kconfig option
only available under CONFIG_EXPERT to turn it back on. Since then,
nobody has complained about that, and given the severe limitations
with the code, it's unlikely anyone would have a reason to.
Remove the Kconfig option now, so we can clean up the associated
code in follow-up patches.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 170a64e67709..7add2002ff4c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ menuconfig WLAN
if WLAN
-config WIRELESS_WDS
- bool "mac80211-based legacy WDS support" if EXPERT
- help
- This option enables the deprecated WDS support, the newer
- mac80211-based 4-addr AP/client support supersedes it with
- a much better feature set (HT, VHT, ...)
-
- We plan to remove this option and code, so if you find
- that you have to enable it, please let us know on the
- linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list, so we can
- help you migrate to 4-addr AP/client (or, if it's really
- necessary, give up on our plan of removing it).
-
source "drivers/net/wireless/admtek/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/atmel/Kconfig"
--
2.26.2
