Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:37:57 +0200 | From | "Alessandro Suardi" <> | Subject | Re: 22bb1be4d27... breaks hal (and NM) |
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> : +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). >> : >> So if you've enabled CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (and it correctly has >> default y) then things should continue to work OK. And the deprecation >> date of 2010 sounds reasonable. In fact generous, for us... >> >> So where's the problem? > > The Kconfig message implies that nobody uses the files. It needs to be > updated to state that older versions of HAL do use them (and ideally what > version this was changed).
I was also lured by the Kconfig text, so I changed the default, but have noticed no breakage so far.
[asuardi@sandman linux-2.6.26-git11]$ grep WIRELESS_EXT .config CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y # CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS is not set [asuardi@sandman linux-2.6.26-git11]$ rpm -q hal hal-0.5.11-2.fc9.i386
Is it because Fedora 9 hal is new enough or because I didn't do anything to trigger the breakage ? Just curious.
--alessandro
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