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

Tom K <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:52:52 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:08:41AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
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>>On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:06:30AM +0100, Tom K wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>wlan0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix 
>>>driver !
>>>      
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>>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.
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>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.
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> - Solomon
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Well, I'm just glad, not to mention surprised, that my post turned out 
to be useful!

Thanks
Tom.