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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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b43legacy.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
debugfs.c b43legacy: fix debugfs crash 2016-09-21 12:13:34 +02:00
debugfs.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
dma.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
dma.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
ilt.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
ilt.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
Kconfig b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
leds.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
leds.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
main.c wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default 2016-10-27 09:08:43 +02:00
main.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
Makefile b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
phy.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
phy.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
pio.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
pio.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
radio.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
radio.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
rfkill.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
rfkill.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
sysfs.c b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
sysfs.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00
xmit.c cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band 2016-04-12 15:56:15 +02:00
xmit.h b43legacy: move under broadcom vendor directory 2015-11-18 11:24:09 +02:00