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

[Marcel Holtmann]

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/.
> >
> > Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch.
>
> I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further
> objections to this patch?

patch looks good to me.

Regards

Marcel

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