Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:44940 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753500AbZGATyC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:54:02 -0400 Subject: Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers? From: Johannes Berg To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Dan Williams , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Dave , Karl Relton , dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090701193657.GD3473@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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-RrhZg9HeGiX7FtHCoQfV" Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:53:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1246478019.8154.10.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-RrhZg9HeGiX7FtHCoQfV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > > That's really all I > > care about, I don't want another WEXT-based driver accepted; I want all > > the new ones using cfg80211. >=20 > Now there is a discussion we should have had in Berlin...is it time > to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new drivers? Can't imagine there would have been much discussion on that with the crowd that was there -- I think we should. In fact, on the notes was "publish a wext deprecation statement" or something like that. Just like we insist that nobody adds an entirely new wireless stack, we should insist that nobody add a new way of interpreting wext commands. johannes --=-RrhZg9HeGiX7FtHCoQfV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKS76+AAoJEODzc/N7+QmacOwP/14AtPL6M309evNKLeAFlp/d pCxv/0a+KdADriI0G6E7pRetThTSkKhMIFG+bBp7By06cbEDORHDe64X+nO0B80B 6pvNZuFAQTc4j0zd6JaGOhf+mwkk/TAguWxovavHo081Me3e7U02S1jWsRUwsdUl P5XTzEvHh0vNUyAVtWQmFxyb1JD2m5s9z646FoePrdMSdhs5oIAVKeQxFU+fkYnw PkGAVYgTsxufrguGf42vuwCa3Kw0PVSikrGftMbojkN3AjD6o2d+GdrAufZw8SRA WwNkj9kLCnoviYqeYU8nY5eSWc4civTIjOQMT6SJVArGiWaz+JMvtscNXUP2DYJQ OIg8/jxwne8VT1pf+XLnpumgPDIehap1ROTaW+BStSBOY1u3T8bq3m9H36yqVTv+ sonXN4sLbM5opky05FvT3dvP20mznsEsj2tZk3YbrzxztScXPcg/3uuYMfwLo5nB Pisc4eh5JcQIxDDf3rPQM8kZ9yNdf8YKYsETMiGUai/xmNNs55kTBElArkRawayF q7n3EJXFxIApkvjBuQKjBGOgdZfY1hCAuyZNx/Mb8daVvCvFI+vjb0KveiGPPPtN poHjt0kTsx20YyglgQKcHZK04arzRcF06ok/VU5rdW7pCeNo7gGJvgYWWIWB1s7Q mpPb5ZGGE5lytHjU+63P =Rs4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RrhZg9HeGiX7FtHCoQfV--