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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC: 2.6 patch] clarify the WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS help text
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:42:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080724124225.GD32109@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216899520.13587.49.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:38:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:58 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > From commit 22bb1be4d27...:
> > 
> > "The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not used
> > by anyone."
> > 
> > Can't have been much of an investigation as HAL uses these to determine
> > if a card is a wireless one. Without this option, you cannot get
> > wireless support in NetworkManager, stranding most laptops.
> 
> Bzzzzt. You suck. Go check again. Hint: try hal's git tree.

Can everyone agree on the patch below?

> johannes

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


Current Hal uses the CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS files, so don't claim 
there were no known users and recommend to enable the option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

b685f62718b947264657c298e5ee5b2149200f68 
diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index ab015c6..e582432 100644
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
 	  files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information
 	  is available via the ioctls as well.
 
-	  Say Y if you have programs using it (we don't know of any).
+	  If unsure, say Y.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24  9:58 22bb1be4d27... breaks hal (and NM) Pierre Ossman
2008-07-24 11:38 ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-24 11:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-24 12:08     ` Johannes Berg
2008-07-24 12:11     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-24 12:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-24 12:33       ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-07-24 12:42   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-07-24 12:54     ` [RFC: 2.6 patch] clarify the WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS help text Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-24 20:21     ` Johannes Berg

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