Return-path: Received: from s72.web-hosting.com ([198.187.29.22]:43561 "EHLO s72.web-hosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbaLaID2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:03:28 -0500 From: Sujith Manoharan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <21667.44627.825091.517424@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20141231_090344_826108_965A8FF2) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:35:39 +0530 To: "Grumbach\, Emmanuel" Cc: Jiri Kosina , Larry Finger , Borislav Petkov , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "egrumbach\@gmail.com" , "peter\@hurleysoftware.com" , "ilw\@linux.intel.com" , "Berg\, Johannes" , "johannes\@sipsolutions.net" Subject: RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ In-Reply-To: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD429@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <54A2B807.1020202@hurleysoftware.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DC915@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <1419971304.30412.0.camel@egrumbacBox> <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD429@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > I don't see this as another datapoint. All it means is that there are ancient > drivers that won't work at all with newer tools and that are taken into > consideration while trying to deprecate an API. Not just drivers, tools and applications too. I don't think we can ever lose the WEXT baggage since there will probably be tools that will never migrate to nl80211. But, we can direct to /dev/null all kernel bugs that are related to WEXT. :-) Sujith