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[PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal

Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around
for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really
used, this schedules it for removal.

The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main
user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an
alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Johannes Berg and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
··· 304 304 Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> 305 305 306 306 --------------------------- 307 + 308 + What: Wireless extensions over netlink (CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK) 309 + When: with the merge of wireless-dev, 2.6.22 or later 310 + Why: The option/code is 311 + * not enabled on most kernels 312 + * not required by any userspace tools (except an experimental one, 313 + and even there only for some parts, others use ioctl) 314 + * pointless since wext is no longer evolving and the ioctl 315 + interface needs to be kept 316 + Who: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> 317 + 318 + ---------------------------