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| author | Johannes Berg | 2016-10-18 10:28:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg | 2016-10-27 09:08:43 +0200 |
| commit | 8f20542386c57bc5f40a09e38d2772d84c0b2afa (patch) | |
| tree | 8b174161758cc1026f721978f9c57274813a5bc4 /drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0ea2a2ee8de0501b132cc4454a31bbadbdb5dbbe (diff) | |
wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default
The old WDS 4-addr frame support is very limited, e.g.
* no encryption is possible on such links
* it cannot support rate/HT/VHT negotiation
* management APIs are very restricted
These make the WDS legacy mode useless in practice.
All of these are resolved by the 4-addr AP/client support,
so there's also no reason to improve WDS in the future.
Therefore, add a Kconfig option to disable legacy WDS.
This gives people an "emergency valve" while they migrate
to the better-supported 4-addr AP/client option; we plan
to remove it (and the associated cfg80211/mac80211 code,
which is the ultimate goal) in the future.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig index 8c8edaf1bba6..8f5a3f4a43f2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ menuconfig WLAN if WLAN +config WIRELESS_WDS + bool "mac80211-based legacy WDS support" if EXPERT + help + This option enables the deprecated WDS support, the newer + mac80211-based 4-addr AP/client support supersedes it with + a much better feature set (HT, VHT, ...) + + We plan to remove this option and code, so if you find + that you have to enable it, please let us know on the + linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org mailing list, so we can + help you migrate to 4-addr AP/client (or, if it's really + necessary, give up on our plan of removing it). + source "drivers/net/wireless/admtek/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/wireless/atmel/Kconfig" |