From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Bjorge Dijkstra <bjd@jooz.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: status wireless extensions API for new drivers
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:31:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213213118.GE3083@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4761A108.2080005@jooz.net>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:15:52PM +0100, Bjorge Dijkstra wrote:
> We have used the Wireless Extensions API, but I get the impression that
> things are moving towards the cfg/nl80211 API's. Is it still acceptable
> for new drivers trying to get into mainline to use WEXT, or should we
> switch to the new API's?
WEXT is fine for new drivers. At this time cfg80211 does not offer
a suitable replacement.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 21:15 status wireless extensions API for new drivers Bjorge Dijkstra
2007-12-13 21:31 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-12-13 22:07 ` Bjorge Dijkstra
2007-12-13 22:13 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-13 23:01 ` Bjorge Dijkstra
2007-12-13 21:33 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-13 22:05 ` Bjorge Dijkstra
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