From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:53063 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbZDUIhv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:37:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL From: Zhu Yi To: Johannes Berg Cc: John Linville , linux-wireless , Samuel Ortiz In-Reply-To: <1240302453.17388.5.camel@johannes.local> References: <1240246179.4632.6.camel@johannes.local> <1240276136.354.107.camel@debian> <1240302453.17388.5.camel@johannes.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:31:54 +0800 Message-Id: <1240302714.354.130.camel@debian> (sfid-20090421_103754_577676_6B7E75F3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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