Commit edae58ea authored Nov 21, 2007 by John W. Linville Committed by David S. Miller Jan 28, 2008

softmac: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal



Schedule softmac for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 003faaa1

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -315,3 +315,11 @@ Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the
		Who: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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		What: iee80211 softmac wireless networking component
		When: 2.6.26 (or after removal of bcm43xx and port of zd1211rw to mac80211)
		Files: net/ieee80211/softmac
		Why: No in-kernel drivers will depend on it any longer.
		Who: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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net/ieee80211/Kconfig

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		config IEEE80211
		tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack"
		tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (DEPRECATED)"
		---help---
		This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.11
		networking stack.
		networking stack. This component is deprecated in favor of the
		mac80211 component.

		config IEEE80211_DEBUG
		bool "Enable full debugging output"