Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751531AbaLaOlQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:41:16 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:39528 "EHLO mail-wg0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751080AbaLaOlP (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:41:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54A3FECC.7050202@hurleysoftware.com> References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD8D8@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <54A3FECC.7050202@hurleysoftware.com> From: Julian Calaby Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:40:53 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" To: Peter Hurley Cc: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , Jiri Kosina , Arend van Spriel , Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "egrumbach@gmail.com" , "ilw@linux.intel.com" , "Berg, Johannes" , Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 12/31/2014 08:26 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>> >>>> You mentioned in the discussion and I quote: "*If* wireless >>>> maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to Linus for >>>> consideration.". However, you did not wait for any response from the >>>> wireless maintainers nor from the author of the patch you are reverting. >>>> Seems like an overreaction to me though personally I do not disgree >>>> with the revert itself. >>> >>> My understanding from the whole thread was that Emmanuel disagrees with >>> the revert, and I consider Emmanuel to definitely belong to the "wireless >>> maintainers" group. If my understanding was wrong on this, sorry for that. >> >> You understanding is wrong. This patch has an author and you could I didn't >> sign-off the patch which is an obvious indication I am not a "wireless maintainer". >> You didn't even make the minimal effort to check how this patch should be properly >> routed. >> >> Regardless of all this, I didn't say I disagree, I said that we need to find a way to signal >> the userland developers that an API will be deprecated at some point. I haven't seen >> any response / suggestion from you on that. > > pr_notice_once("WEXT compatibility has been deprecated since _____" \ > " Upgrade your userspace tools to nl80211!\n"); Sadly, nobody will read that. It needs to be at least an error, possibly with a big splat to scare people. Maybe using one of WARN()'s siblings instead. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/