Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:54164 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754051AbZGFOat (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:30:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:23:57 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Dan Williams , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Dave , Karl Relton , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers? Message-ID: <20090706142356.GB2703@tuxdriver.com> References: <1246388712.4949.52.camel@localhost> <43e72e890906301217m2dec7bfaqea0472907531d21d@mail.gmail.com> <1246396179.4949.76.camel@localhost> <43e72e890906301458y197c5411yfb93ea0089ed49f3@mail.gmail.com> <1246464991.4331.18.camel@localhost> <4A4BA21F.1070101@gmail.com> <43e72e890907011112l220874bbu8db8808f666bbd4d@mail.gmail.com> <1246473300.30522.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090701193657.GD3473@tuxdriver.com> <1246884761.20908.11.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <1246884761.20908.11.camel@johannes.local> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:52:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:36 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > That's really all I > > > care about, I don't want another WEXT-based driver accepted; I want all > > > the new ones using cfg80211. > > > > Now there is a discussion we should have had in Berlin...is it time > > to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new drivers? > > Should we publish something like this: > http://wireless.kernel.org/wext-statement (don't want it indexed by > google yet so you need to log on to view it), for example on lwn? Just > so more application developers are also aware. Yes, that seems fine to me. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. ?Viva Honduras Libre!