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| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-06-12 14:25:04 -0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-06-12 14:25:04 -0400 |
| commit | 0440507bbc44149e63bbfb9df730ba3820371904 (patch) | |
| tree | 7275e41aa1aa7e4d19d0503f1c15f07991c1a120 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8d242488ce4627dd7e6333caab56df11ea25e239 (diff) | |
| parent | 7f0d9f430dc99303558adc30a75eef10c43f7bec (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index bc4b9c6eb80e..61d1a89baeaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -249,15 +249,6 @@ Who: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> --------------------------- -What: Code that is now under CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS - (in net/core/net-sysfs.c) -When: 3.5 -Why: Over 1K .text/.data size reduction, data is available in other - ways (ioctls) -Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - ---------------------------- - What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters When: September 2009 Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and @@ -434,6 +425,19 @@ Who: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> ---------------------------- +What: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT +When: as soon as distributions ship new wireless tools, ie. wpa_supplicant 1.0 + and NetworkManager/connman/etc. that are able to use nl80211 +Why: Wireless extensions are deprecated, and userland tools are moving to + using nl80211. New drivers are no longer using wireless extensions, + and while there might still be old drivers, both new drivers and new + userland no longer needs them and they can't be used for an feature + developed in the past couple of years. As such, compatibility with + wireless extensions in new drivers will be removed. +Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> + +---------------------------- + What: g_file_storage driver When: 3.8 Why: This driver has been superseded by g_mass_storage. |