From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>,
Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:08:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246486104.12994.169.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907011456q7e3d9f5al1057f940a7655cda@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Luis,
> >> > That's really all I
> >> > care about, I don't want another WEXT-based driver accepted; I want all
> >> > the new ones using cfg80211.
> >>
> >> Now there is a discussion we should have had in Berlin...is it time
> >> to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new drivers?
> >
> > there is really nothing much to discuss on this topic. The plan is to
> > deprecate WEXT, that simple. So if the driver has no cfg80211 support,
> > then it will not be included. Period.
> >
> > Send such drivers off to staging and let them have their 6 month. Then
> > we either remove them again or they got ported to cfg80211.
>
> 6 months only in staging ? Is this a rule now for staging?
that is what Greg mentioned to me. If there is no activity for 6 month
and the driver is not getting anywhere, he going to drop it.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 19:05 [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver Karl Relton
2009-06-30 19:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-30 21:09 ` Karl Relton
2009-06-30 21:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 16:16 ` Karl Relton
2009-07-01 17:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 17:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-01 17:51 ` Dave
2009-07-01 18:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 18:35 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-01 19:36 ` Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers? John W. Linville
2009-07-01 19:49 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 19:53 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-01 20:40 ` Kalle Valo
2009-07-01 21:52 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-01 21:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-01 22:08 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-07-01 22:13 ` Greg KH
2009-07-01 22:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-07-01 22:42 ` Greg KH
2009-07-02 11:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-07-02 12:44 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-02 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 12:52 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-06 14:23 ` John W. Linville
2009-07-06 14:45 ` Larry Finger
2009-07-06 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-07-01 19:46 ` [PATCH] Add prism 2/3 usb adaptor firmware for use with staging/wlan-ng driver David Woodhouse
2009-07-02 16:59 ` Karl Relton
2009-06-30 19:39 ` John W. Linville
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