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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: [PATCH v5 31/33] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT kconfig entry
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:27:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250530052-14783-32-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250530052-14783-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>

Provide more documentation as to why its being deprecated.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
---
 net/wireless/Kconfig |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 991e177..982004b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -81,8 +81,16 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT
 	bool "Wireless extensions"
 	default y
 	---help---
-	  This option enables the legacy wireless extensions
-	  (wireless network interface configuration via ioctls.)
+	  This option enables the legacy wireless extensions.
+	  Wireless extensions was the first 802.11 wireless configuration
+	  API used by the networking subsystem. You will not need this unless
+	  you have old userspace utilities or old wireless devices which
+	  have not yet been ported to cfg80211.
+
+	  Wireless extensions is being deprecated in favor for cfg80211. For
+	  information regarding why see the wireless wiki:
+
+	  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Wireless-Extensions
 
 	  Say Y unless you've upgraded all your userspace to use
 	  nl80211 instead of wireless extensions.
-- 
1.6.2.5


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 17:26 [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/33] wireless: move iwmc3200wifi closer to the other intel drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 02/33] wireless: group intel wireless drivers on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 03/33] wireless: move MWL8K right below libertas " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 05/33] wireless: move p54 and prism54 drivers closer " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 06/33] wireless: group Conexant / STEricsson drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 07/33] wireless: move zd1211rw option closer to old ZyDAS on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 08/33] wireless: group ZyDAS wireless drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 09/33] wireless: group Realtek wireless on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 10/33] wireless: group Broadcom drivers " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 11/33] wireless: clarify rndis_wlan is not broadcom specific Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 12/33] wireless: group Atmel wireless together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 13/33] wireless: move AIRO_CS closer to AIRO_CS Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 19:22   ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-17 19:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 14/33] wireless: group Cisco together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 15/33] wireless: move group drivers together Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 16/33] wireless: organize group drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 17/33] wireless: remove IEEE 802.11 description on hostapd Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 18/33] wireless: move mac80211_hwsim to top level wireless driver menu Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 19/33] wireless: organize individual drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 20/33] wireless: simplify WLAN_PRE80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 21/33] wireless: simplify WLAN_80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 22/33] wireless: remove "Wireless" from rndis kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 23/33] wireless: downgrade TI driver from menuconfig to config Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 24/33] wireless: Update TI kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 25/33] wireless: make ath consistent with the other groups Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 26/33] wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for removal Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 27/33] wireless: update top level wireless driver entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 28/33] wireless: update wireless kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 29/33] wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 30/33] wireless: update reg debug " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 32/33] wireless: update mac80211 " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 33/33] wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 15:01 ` [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates John W. Linville
2009-08-19 18:02   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 18:35     ` John W. Linville
2009-08-19 18:50       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 18:54         ` John W. Linville
2009-08-19 19:57           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 19:08         ` Bob Copeland
2009-08-19 19:52           ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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