Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:59949 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbaLaPDg (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:03:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:03:33 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Julian Calaby cc: Borislav Petkov , Peter Hurley , "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , Arend van Spriel , Linus Torvalds , "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" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (sfid-20141231_160352_430666_363A5190) References: <20141230212326.GA29263@pd.tnic> <54A328C2.5080606@lwfinger.net> <54A3D955.6020809@broadcom.com> <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD8D8@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com> <54A3FECC.7050202@hurleysoftware.com> <20141231144617.GE6332@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Julian Calaby wrote: > The point is that WEXT has been depreciated for _years_. Nobody seems > to have listened. Yes, talking to maintainers will get the last > holdouts of the "big" tools (e.g. wicd) to fix them, but it's not > going to change all the people out there with hacked together > home-grown setups. Exactly. So why not work with whoever maintains iwconfig and friends, so that they are turned into functionally equivalent wrappers around iw? Only then it seems to make sense to start any kind of depreciation. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs