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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement 	rfkill support)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:40:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251751251.1266.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251749600.5165.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Luis,

> > OK not so bad except for:
> > 
> > > kernel/net/wimax/wimax.ko
> > 
> > That's touching another subsystem but we could technically merge wimax
> > into compat-wireless if Inaky thinks that's a good idea. the point
> > here is to unify anything that uses rfkill for backport usage.
> 
> Oh boy, can of worms
> 
> I have my own compat-wimax already, which already handles things for
> backwards compat (many #ifdef hacks to simplify life) and which is
> heavily used internally. 
> 
> I don't really know how much worth it might be and I know I don't have
> resources to support both.

for the wireless-compat tree, I would just remove the RFKILL support for
WiMAX. It is really not worth to support it.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26 22:11 hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support) Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-26 22:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-26 22:55   ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-26 23:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-27  0:16       ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-27  7:14       ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-27  9:43         ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 18:43           ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 18:54             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]               ` <3ace41890908311215u378951e8j3283037ec6794764@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-31 19:25                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 20:13                   ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2009-08-31 20:40                     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-08-31 21:45                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 23:05                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 23:10                           ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2009-08-31 23:34                             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01  0:09                               ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez

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