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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@ -315,3 +315,11 @@ Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the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>
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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
tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack"
tristate "Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (DEPRECATED)"
---help---
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
bool "Enable full debugging output"