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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "wireless: Support of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:02:52 +0100
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On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 18:52 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> This reverts commit ba1debdfed974f25aa598c283567878657b292ee.
> 
> Oliver reported that it breaks network-manager, for some reason with
> this patch NM decides that the device isn't wireless but "generic"
> (ethernet), sees no carrier (as expected with wifi) and fails to do
> anything else with it.
> 
> Revert this to unbreak userspace.

git-email didn't Cc Vadim or Marcel ...

Looks like we can't do this since it will break userspace - please don't
write any tools depending on it :)

johannes