Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:27 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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_.
> > 
> > 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.

Fair enough, no binary drivers. I don't have any problem with your
patch. Just the comment "we don't want anybody to start relying on
these" makes me confuse.

Thanks,
-yi