From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> This code has been on the list to remove for a long time, so disable it by default, add a warning to its Kconfig, and schedule it for removal in 3.5. The only known dependency, hal, has not required it since its 0.5.12 release, which was in early 2009 and hal has since been deprecated completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 3 +-- net/wireless/Kconfig | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig 2011-12-06 17:06:18.000000000 +0100 +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig 2011-12-06 20:41:08.000000000 +0100 @@ -121,15 +121,16 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" - default y depends on WEXT_CORE && SYSFS help This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information is available via the ioctls as well. - Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of - hal. + Say N. If you know you have ancient tools requiring it, + like very old versions of hal (prior to 0.5.12 release), + say Y and update the tools as soon as possible as this + option will be removed soon. config LIB80211 tristate "Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers" --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2011-12-06 17:06:18.000000000 +0100 +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2011-12-06 20:41:35.000000000 +0100 @@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex8 What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) -When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches - for enough time, probably some time in 2010. +When: 3.4 Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other ways (ioctls) Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
