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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/net-sysfs.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/Kconfig | 11 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 8319c462c9f..db300e09c9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -333,3 +333,13 @@ Why: This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of removal fixed lm-sensors (2.x or 3.x) should be readily available. Who: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> + +--------------------------- + +What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS + (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) +When: After the only user (hal) has seen a release with the patches + for enough time, probably some time in 2010. +Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other + ways (ioctls) +Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index 3f794131921..c1f4e0d428c 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static struct attribute_group netstat_group = { .attrs = netstat_attrs, }; -#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT +#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS /* helper function that does all the locking etc for wireless stats */ static ssize_t wireless_show(struct device *d, char *buf, ssize_t (*format)(const struct iw_statistics *, @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net) #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS *groups++ = &netstat_group; -#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT +#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS if (net->wireless_handlers && net->wireless_handlers->get_wireless_stats) *groups++ = &wireless_group; #endif diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig index 79270903bda..ab015c62d56 100644 --- a/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -29,3 +29,14 @@ config WIRELESS_EXT Say N (if you can) unless you know you need wireless extensions for external modules. + +config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS + bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" + default y + depends on WIRELESS_EXT && SYSFS + help + This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics + 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). |