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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-05-16 23:40:19 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-06-05 15:32:15 -0400
commit10bab00afed042c1a38ed5ffb135e2aea5ce1277 (patch)
treebf8f1117797d8e1aed78e5e796f949e8a4e6a510
parent35b2a113cb0298d4f9a1263338b456094a414057 (diff)
downloadlinux-10bab00afed042c1a38ed5ffb135e2aea5ce1277.tar.bz2
cfg80211: deprecate CFG80211_WEXT
Almost all wireless tools have transitioned to or at least added compatibility with nl80211 so there's no real need for CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT any more. Mark it for removal, and also change the default to not be enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt13
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/Kconfig1
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0258e3d06280..dec901554ef7 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -440,6 +440,19 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
----------------------------
+What: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT
+When: as soon as distributions ship new wireless tools, ie. wpa_supplicant 1.0
+ and NetworkManager/connman/etc. that are able to use nl80211
+Why: Wireless extensions are deprecated, and userland tools are moving to
+ using nl80211. New drivers are no longer using wireless extensions,
+ and while there might still be old drivers, both new drivers and new
+ userland no longer needs them and they can't be used for an feature
+ developed in the past couple of years. As such, compatibility with
+ wireless extensions in new drivers will be removed.
+Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
+
+----------------------------
+
What: g_file_storage driver
When: 3.8
Why: This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage.
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 8dba3c60794a..4d2b1ec6516f 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT
bool "cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility"
depends on CFG80211
select WEXT_CORE
- default y
help
Enable this option if you need old userspace for wireless
extensions with cfg80211-based drivers.