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SubjectRe: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them
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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.

Regards

Marcel



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