[patch] remove wireless support
Joe Shaw
joeshaw at novell.com
Tue Jun 1 14:45:43 PDT 2004
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:41 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:40 -0400, Nick Penwarden wrote:
>
> > You guys have the final say, but I would disagree with removing it. It
> > still provides some convenient information to application developers.
> > For example, letting them know that a wireless device does in fact exist
> > and that a particular network device is wireless so that the program can
> > properly configure it (using iwlib, etc.).
>
> This one feature might be something we want to retain, e.g. a 'wireless'
> capability. Dunno - at the same time, iwlib can do this for us.
Actually, yeah, this is a good idea. Good call Nick! It'd be nice if
we could keep this property. Pretty trivial to do by just checking if
there is a "wireless" sysfs directory.
Joe
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