wireless: disable wext sysfs by default

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / net / wireless / Kconfig

diff --git a/net/wireless/Kconfig b/net/wireless/Kconfig
index 1f1ef70f34f2d2852a6007b0444ac5cd14fb7f4a..2e4444fedbe0143430fdaffdd58c8793ee6da9de 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -121,15 +121,16 @@ config CFG80211_WEXT
 
 config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
        bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files"
-       default y
        depends on WEXT_CORE && SYSFS
        help
          This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics
          files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information
          is available via the ioctls as well.
 
-         Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of
-         hal.
+         Say N. If you know you have ancient tools requiring it,
+         like very old versions of hal (prior to 0.5.12 release),
+         say Y and update the tools as soon as possible as this
+         option will be removed soon.
 
 config LIB80211
        tristate "Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers"