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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2007-03-05 03:30:27 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-05 10:57:51 -0500
commitcc2cccaec88d422e628e6b588078e1dbdc241896 (patch)
treec009ce88aff59426ddf289f8ed02dd63fa5f32d1 /Documentation
parentde320199c0f425503eef17883a3ba90464bf35ba (diff)
[PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal
Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really used, this schedules it for removal. The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -304,3 +304,15 @@ Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
304Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> 304Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
305 305
306--------------------------- 306---------------------------
307
308What: Wireless extensions over netlink (CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK)
309When: with the merge of wireless-dev, 2.6.22 or later
310Why: The option/code is
311 * not enabled on most kernels
312 * not required by any userspace tools (except an experimental one,
313 and even there only for some parts, others use ioctl)
314 * pointless since wext is no longer evolving and the ioctl
315 interface needs to be kept
316Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
317
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