From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:38374 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750695AbZDUI2s (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:28:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL From: Johannes Berg To: Zhu Yi Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless , Samuel Ortiz In-Reply-To: <1240276136.354.107.camel@debian> References: <1240246179.4632.6.camel@johannes.local> <1240276136.354.107.camel@debian> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CaVDK3vP8c+jlpXmqOM0" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:27:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1240302453.17388.5.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090421_102853_880867_3556ADF2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-CaVDK3vP8c+jlpXmqOM0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 09:08 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 00:49 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > > The fact that these are exported is a technical detail > > of the conversion period -- we don't want anybody to > > start relying on these. Ultimately we want things to > > use cfg80211 only, and once everything that is in wext > > is converted to cfg80211 drivers will not need to touch > > wext _at all_. >=20 > Johannes, why don't you want them to be used by others, say some fullmac > drivers? These functions can be used as glue from wext to cfg80211 in > the conversion period. After cfg80211 is ultimately used, they can be > removed all together of course. I don't expect any binary drivers to start using them anyway, but on the odd chance that somebody was considering that ... I just don't want any arguments at the conversion point that "we still need these symbols because we released a driver that uses them" which would mean we couldn't actually convert properly. johannes --=-CaVDK3vP8c+jlpXmqOM0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJ7YNtAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYM2cP/33IvOybIHVHnksWIQ0FhEyc hqfYcYm5+9QynBAx59jvPagVmR/ntKq/zPcnrXAnqWQ8ELmaAy0vVYQZg2Rl7Xzk agRDmcN/3zeAAwiK4QHFki2oEwO+EP0md6BT9hwU1V0R5pGO7rbjw4cqftTzFxSV SG1+canFBrlaboMlMvX14hBW5H6Vpis533oeoKP/GxYkM44BJ1cpiC8WA1Sm2vSr gARpEthtPwRhNrQVn55JPF5xo+wUVtkXUjF99C91cRGHXcxKrx1zzLXCppUYcUT+ 84Zb/6/LWt+dbSevejAJHRwv/4bF7okKqRarXSDgpRK3f/oKSdg3oWv+dtWjU1xJ B1HfYgAfXyHSXmRnPLcLX+bQv4Yu+C1fq9UQ8zI15+T6XkUxUc4UKhmZqRIvELtH 3RJyXoXHtxnXzBE7pjD94gL3pUeXCFcx+2jviMiAVT7tNPuGywx1nB2hz9Yo5YRm 3CKR3JXCgIqNgE0I0dtIF5wupJ4OmiKEOW3lfvh5tn7E53255Yjvw9Jyo9hGWkWi NJLF2Y2b8Rq8YrD0uWgiK8G2h1iKUrbbn25YQFNWLfh/RTn5bBjjekgq0iUMNJwZ xa96Pe0Ud+Pnq4p1rhE1rPrbBSA/yOuN7p+ci+dXrIFpbK5vtSS1jOmwp9AH5UzF lbm1ofJwGILIlj1vFSOb =FDN7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CaVDK3vP8c+jlpXmqOM0--