From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
dcbw@redhat.com, hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org
Subject: Re: libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:56:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070614125618.a7338ad8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614190936.GA28917@tuxdriver.com>
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:09:36 -0400
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> It does not make sense to me to rip this out purely for aesthetic
> reasons.
Aesthetics are good, but that's not the main issue.
What is most worrying is that there appears to be a risk that these
newly-added interfaces will later become obsoleted by another interface.
This means that we'll need to maintain, test and support _both_ interfaces
for a very long time. This is the sort of foot-shooting we should avoid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-14 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 17:58 libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211 Johannes Berg
2007-06-14 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-14 17:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-14 18:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-14 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-14 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-14 22:22 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-14 22:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-14 22:55 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-14 19:09 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-14 19:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-06-14 20:08 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-17 4:46 ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-06 15:40 ` Javier Cardona
2007-07-06 16:08 ` Dan Williams
2007-07-10 14:56 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-10 15:18 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-18 17:38 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-18 18:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 18:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-14 20:03 ` Holger Schurig
2007-06-14 22:48 ` Dan Williams
2007-06-15 18:42 ` Dan Williams
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