On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 15:45 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

Hi Johannes,

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The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not
used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext
ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch
makes them optional and schedules them for removal.

it is used by HAL to classify WiFi network cards as net.80211 instead  
of net.80203 and so we do have an actual user. However HAL only tests  
for the existence of the directory wireless/.

Please fix HAL first before submitting such a patch.

I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further
objections to this patch?

johannes