Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:46:17 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 01:40:53AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Sadly, nobody will read that. It needs to be at least an error,
> possibly with a big splat to scare people.
> 
> Maybe using one of WARN()'s siblings instead.

And that opens a lot of useless bugzillas...

The right thing to do is go talk to the maintainers of the userspace
tools or send patches.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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