From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:58708 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756346AbZDUI5h (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:57:37 -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: <1240302714.354.130.camel@debian> References: <1240246179.4632.6.camel@johannes.local> <1240276136.354.107.camel@debian> <1240302453.17388.5.camel@johannes.local> <1240302714.354.130.camel@debian> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uopftA27u+vAvBFjrLWq" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1240304222.17388.10.camel@johannes.local> (sfid-20090421_105759_155392_7E221471) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-uopftA27u+vAvBFjrLWq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:31 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > 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_. > > >=20 > > > Johannes, why don't you want them to be used by others, say some full= mac > > > 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. > >=20 > > I don't expect any binary drivers to start using them anyway, but on th= e > > 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. >=20 > 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. Sorry, my mistake, that should have read "don't want any binary drivers". Everyone is free to use them of course, but I want the option to remove them easily and without Ubuntu (...) complaining that it broke their latest wireless drivers. johannes --=-uopftA27u+vAvBFjrLWq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJ7YpbAAoJEKVg1VMiehFYhv0QAK59qpTRuJf/zrq61rJGagRQ kxup8qsmkfpsON6uz3J0axB6yeqoKGSzGhtja2gJ1s056eO3Kmmg7vBpiaFu8+Yf FbGVkVo9SVlp76+xv3RWjrbI1kkb1Zw4H+031NqUBF5Y5KpaQmdMBJab1Vwq6VKe l4ctC/pAs9NhEJpisdDJHWvVz4a47j41JieHW+tNRLvB9Mpco+Sk+TMIXAZ3p7Gk /Dq4QiK6eKgx6R1gDzqn2oVX41wj0xdLKvs61j7e7f6miIWcC+JYojRSjUOA+GfA aiCtJEAcVYIHvfWU7D9Yi/rHYrTaxM07WatdEnpou1XecuM/0wpoxYJoEYKgaTRe KivTz0+0tf9ZNN9hTFVkV62Vw61lirWqipfCLlKP4tDWXXbKMeS4AhzgCptn9R8y pu5XoZZq8Z+U49Xi2tDnJQtFHzHi2DlXB0wnev6apZslZZXCr2gEhEXHq4JsTD/y +NVhQJMQVNp75ILP9Pu4jnpCDcSVmp2SaGN4ochRaFkR/dvD3JvXV0PYT3yArucr +rvT5ZrlN7DfUX0S3CMSa6ihGikfXrFvxWgvBay6GkMwZKEwYGezv24Y4qFAi9I3 Q4dEZRii11FykvLCwwRKK7YHSrNYCoz+Z3aERWsv+h3Ve/xF9qoFPkT/oPcBRWWS kLRQxYrY3KIrInUl7iCb =EzhV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uopftA27u+vAvBFjrLWq--