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Subject: Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Hi Luis,

> >> > 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?
> >
> > there is really nothing much to discuss on this topic. The plan is to
> > deprecate WEXT, that simple. So if the driver has no cfg80211 support,
> > then it will not be included. Period.
> >
> > Send such drivers off to staging and let them have their 6 month.  Then
> > we either remove them again or they got ported to cfg80211.
> 
> 6 months only in staging ? Is this a rule now for staging?

that is what Greg mentioned to me. If there is no activity for 6 month
and the driver is not getting anywhere, he going to drop it.

Regards

Marcel