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softmac: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal

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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>
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John W. Linville 2007-11-21 15:24:35 -05:00 committed by David S. Miller
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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@ -315,3 +315,11 @@ Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the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> 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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config IEEE80211 config IEEE80211
tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack" tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (DEPRECATED)"
---help--- ---help---
This option enables the hardware independent IEEE 802.11 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 config IEEE80211_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output" bool "Enable full debugging output"