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Commit 10bab00a authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 35b2a113

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -440,6 +440,19 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> 


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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>



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What:	g_file_storage driver

When:	3.8

Why:	This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage.

net/wireless/Kconfig

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@@ -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.