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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: add notes about userspace API/ABI modifications
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 17:52 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 02/27/15 15:32, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg<johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >
> > Add notes about userspace ABI/API modifications, including the
> > fact that we decided that API submissions should come with a
> > driver implementation.
> 
> Should we also consider Cc: to linux-api mailing list or do you think 
> nl80211 api has sufficient capable reviewers.

Well, I don't know for sure, but I'd rather not overload the people
there ... there are very few there anyway. And probably most people have
no idea what wifi is ;-)

> There is probably a reason 
> for adding these notes now ;-)

Well, that's mostly the discussion on "need to have an upstream user"

johannes