Re: warning about /proc/net/wireless in log

[email protected] Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:40:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:08:41AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:06:30AM +0100, Tom K wrote:
> > As per my previous posts, I'm now running wlan-ng compiled from svn 
> > trunk with kernel 2.6.14. It's working fine, but my kernel log has the 
> > following:
> > 
> > wlan0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix 
> > driver !
> 
> It's not really a driver problem per se -- /proc/net/wireless is going 
> away in the next WEXT release, and as such drivers should stop exporting 
> it.  The real problem is that there's some userspace app relying on it.

Argh, I stand corrected.  It's been shoved into the wireless_handler 
structure.  Serves me right for for not researching more carefully
first.  It'll be fixed soon enough.

 - Solomon
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