Commit cc2cccae authored Mar 05, 2007 by Johannes Berg Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 05, 2007

[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>

parent de320199

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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	@@ -304,3 +304,15 @@ Why: The code says it was obsolete when it was written in 2001.
	Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>		Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>

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			What: Wireless extensions over netlink (CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK)
			When: with the merge of wireless-dev, 2.6.22 or later
			Why: The option/code is
			* not enabled on most kernels
			* not required by any userspace tools (except an experimental one,
			and even there only for some parts, others use ioctl)
			* pointless since wext is no longer evolving and the ioctl
			interface needs to be kept
			Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

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