Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:62919 "EHLO mail-qa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751073AbaLaNtJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:49:09 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id w8so11117777qac.19 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:49:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A3FECC.7050202@hurleysoftware.com> (sfid-20141231_144926_394657_F3217C6F) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:49:00 -0500 From: Peter Hurley MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , Jiri Kosina , Arend van Spriel CC: Linus Torvalds , Borislav Petkov , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "egrumbach@gmail.com" , "ilw@linux.intel.com" , "Berg, Johannes" , Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD8D8@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD8D8@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/31/2014 08:26 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: >> >> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> >>> You mentioned in the discussion and I quote: "*If* wireless >>> maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to Linus for >>> consideration.". However, you did not wait for any response from the >>> wireless maintainers nor from the author of the patch you are reverting. >>> Seems like an overreaction to me though personally I do not disgree >>> with the revert itself. >> >> My understanding from the whole thread was that Emmanuel disagrees with >> the revert, and I consider Emmanuel to definitely belong to the "wireless >> maintainers" group. If my understanding was wrong on this, sorry for that. > > You understanding is wrong. This patch has an author and you could I didn't > sign-off the patch which is an obvious indication I am not a "wireless maintainer". > You didn't even make the minimal effort to check how this patch should be properly > routed. > > Regardless of all this, I didn't say I disagree, I said that we need to find a way to signal > the userland developers that an API will be deprecated at some point. I haven't seen > any response / suggestion from you on that. pr_notice_once("WEXT compatibility has been deprecated since _____" \ " Upgrade your userspace tools to nl80211!\n");