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wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

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WDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks such
fundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,
and similar. As such, it was basically always unusable as is.

Back in 2016, in commit 8f20542386 ("wireless: deprecate WDS
and disable by default") I disabled it and made the Kconfig option
only available under CONFIG_EXPERT to turn it back on. Since then,
nobody has complained about that, and given the severe limitations
with the code, it's unlikely anyone would have a reason to.

Remove the Kconfig option now, so we can clean up the associated
code in follow-up patches.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.7d1e44c50e21.I2c0a1705fd6491d9ba3400c88415ee2c4832ae98@changeid
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg 2020-11-09 10:57:40 +01:00
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commit 326a10b90d
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@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ 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"