| Johannes Berg | 704232c | 2007-04-23 12:20:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config CFG80211 |
| 2 | tristate "Improved wireless configuration API" |
| 3 | |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | config NL80211 |
| 5 | bool "nl80211 new netlink interface support" |
| Andrew Morton | 0aa4f33 | 2007-09-26 22:21:28 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | depends on CFG80211 |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | default y |
| 8 | ---help--- |
| John W. Linville | d6084cb | 2007-12-21 00:43:34 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | This option turns on the new netlink interface |
| 10 | (nl80211) support in cfg80211. |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
| John W. Linville | d6084cb | 2007-12-21 00:43:34 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | If =n, drivers using mac80211 will be configured via |
| 13 | wireless extension support provided by that subsystem. |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| John W. Linville | d6084cb | 2007-12-21 00:43:34 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | If unsure, say Y. |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| Johannes Berg | 2a5e1c0 | 2007-04-23 12:19:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | config WIRELESS_EXT |
| 18 | bool "Wireless extensions" |
| 19 | default n |
| 20 | ---help--- |
| 21 | This option enables the legacy wireless extensions |
| 22 | (wireless network interface configuration via ioctls.) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Wireless extensions will be replaced by cfg80211 and |
| 25 | will be required only by legacy drivers that implement |
| Johannes Berg | 5568296 | 2007-09-20 13:09:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | wireless extension handlers. This option does not |
| 27 | affect the wireless-extension backward compatibility |
| 28 | code in cfg80211. |
| Johannes Berg | 2a5e1c0 | 2007-04-23 12:19:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| 30 | Say N (if you can) unless you know you need wireless |
| 31 | extensions for external modules. |
| Johannes Berg | 22bb1be | 2008-07-10 11:16:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| 33 | config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS |
| 34 | bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" |
| 35 | default y |
| 36 | depends on WIRELESS_EXT && SYSFS |
| 37 | help |
| 38 | This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics |
| 39 | files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information |
| 40 | is available via the ioctls as well. |
| 41 | |
| Florian Mickler | d966474 | 2008-09-02 15:26:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of |
| 43 | hal. |