Subject: Re: hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187:
 Implement 	rfkill support)
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:40:51 -0700
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Hi Luis,

> > OK not so bad except for:
> > 
> > > kernel/net/wimax/wimax.ko
> > 
> > That's touching another subsystem but we could technically merge wimax
> > into compat-wireless if Inaky thinks that's a good idea. the point
> > here is to unify anything that uses rfkill for backport usage.
> 
> Oh boy, can of worms
> 
> I have my own compat-wimax already, which already handles things for
> backwards compat (many #ifdef hacks to simplify life) and which is
> heavily used internally. 
> 
> I don't really know how much worth it might be and I know I don't have
> resources to support both.

for the wireless-compat tree, I would just remove the RFKILL support for
WiMAX. It is really not worth to support it.

Regards

Marcel