wireless: disable wext sysfs by default

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@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 1f1ef70f34f..2e4444fedbe 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -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"