From 8f20542386c57bc5f40a09e38d2772d84c0b2afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:28:57 +0200 Subject: 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 --- drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig index 8c8edaf1bba6..8f5a3f4a43f2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig @@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ menuconfig WLAN 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" -- cgit v1.2.1