[PATCH] change detection of wireless

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:57 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this patch change the detection of wireless network devices. The currently 
> used proc file is/become IIRC deprecated. I change the detection to check 
> for /sys/class/net/*/wireless (which was already in the code but commented 
> out).

Yea, I kept bouncing back and forth between looking at /proc and
wireless/ for years because some drivers supported the former but not
the latter. I think they're all mostly good now.

> 
> I added also some code to add some keys to IrDA net devices and to avoid 
> adding ARPHRD_IEEE80211 (IEEE 802.11 headers), ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM and  
> ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP devices which are IMO useless and shouldn't be 
> visible for the user.

Looks good if you patch the spec to define what net.irda is. As for
dropping the so-called "useless" devices we can always add new
capabilities if NetworkManager or someone else needs to have this in
HAL.

Thanks. Please commit.

     David