linux/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
Johannes Berg 8f20542386 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>
2016-10-27 09:08:43 +02:00

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# Wireless LAN device configuration
#
menuconfig WLAN
bool "Wireless LAN"
depends on !S390
depends on NET
select WIRELESS
default y
---help---
This section contains all the pre 802.11 and 802.11 wireless
device drivers. For a complete list of drivers and documentation
on them refer to the wireless wiki:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
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"
source "drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/cisco/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/intel/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/intersil/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/marvell/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/ralink/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/rsi/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/st/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/ti/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/zydas/Kconfig"
config PCMCIA_RAYCS
tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4GHz wireless support"
depends on PCMCIA
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_SPY
select WEXT_PRIV
---help---
Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
(PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
details.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
config PCMCIA_WL3501
tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
depends on CFG80211 && PCMCIA
select WIRELESS_EXT
select WEXT_SPY
help
A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
micro support for ethtool.
config MAC80211_HWSIM
tristate "Simulated radio testing tool for mac80211"
depends on MAC80211
---help---
This driver is a developer testing tool that can be used to test
IEEE 802.11 networking stack (mac80211) functionality. This is not
needed for normal wireless LAN usage and is only for testing. See
Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim for more information on how
to use this tool.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called mac80211_hwsim. If unsure, say N.
config USB_NET_RNDIS_WLAN
tristate "Wireless RNDIS USB support"
depends on USB
depends on CFG80211
select USB_NET_DRIVERS
select USB_USBNET
select USB_NET_CDCETHER
select USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
---help---
This is a driver for wireless RNDIS devices.
These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
U.S. Robotics USR5421
Belkin F5D7051
Linksys WUSB54GSv2
Linksys WUSB54GSC
Asus WL169gE
Eminent EM4045
BT Voyager 1055
Linksys WUSB54GSv1
U.S. Robotics USR5420
BUFFALO WLI-USB-G54
All of these devices are based on Broadcom 4320 chip which is the
only wireless RNDIS chip known to date.
If you choose to build a module, it'll be called rndis_wlan.
endif # WLAN