1704232c2SJohannes Bergconfig CFG80211 2704232c2SJohannes Berg tristate "Improved wireless configuration API" 3704232c2SJohannes Berg 455682965SJohannes Bergconfig NL80211 555682965SJohannes Berg bool "nl80211 new netlink interface support" 60aa4f333SAndrew Morton depends on CFG80211 755682965SJohannes Berg default y 855682965SJohannes Berg ---help--- 955682965SJohannes Berg This option turns on the new netlink interface 1055682965SJohannes Berg (nl80211) support in cfg80211. 1155682965SJohannes Berg 1255682965SJohannes Berg If =n, drivers using mac80211 will be configured via 1355682965SJohannes Berg wireless extension support provided by that subsystem. 1455682965SJohannes Berg 1555682965SJohannes Berg If unsure, say Y. 1655682965SJohannes Berg 172a5e1c0eSJohannes Bergconfig WIRELESS_EXT 182a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg bool "Wireless extensions" 192a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg default n 202a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg ---help--- 212a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg This option enables the legacy wireless extensions 222a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg (wireless network interface configuration via ioctls.) 232a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 242a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg Wireless extensions will be replaced by cfg80211 and 252a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg will be required only by legacy drivers that implement 2655682965SJohannes Berg wireless extension handlers. This option does not 2755682965SJohannes Berg affect the wireless-extension backward compatibility 2855682965SJohannes Berg code in cfg80211. 292a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 302a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg Say N (if you can) unless you know you need wireless 312a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg extensions for external modules. 32*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg 33*22bb1be4SJohannes Bergconfig WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS 34*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files" 35*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg default y 36*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg depends on WIRELESS_EXT && SYSFS 37*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg help 38*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics 39*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information 40*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg is available via the ioctls as well. 41*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg 42*22bb1be4SJohannes Berg Say Y if you have programs using it (we don't know of any). 43