Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:33238 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752257AbZGAUki (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:40:38 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so1071071fxm.37 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:40:39 -0700 (PDT) To: "John W. Linville" 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? 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> From: Kalle Valo Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:40:37 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20090701193657.GD3473@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message of "Wed\, 1 Jul 2009 15\:36\:57 -0400") Message-ID: <87ljn8t9ve.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "John W. Linville" writes: > 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... Yes, we missed this one. > is it time to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new > drivers? I vote for yes. In my books wext is depreceated and its use should be avoided. After Johannes' excellent work we need to start pushing the use of cfg80211 and nl80211. -- Kalle Valo