From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.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: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:23:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090706142356.GB2703@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246884761.20908.11.camel@johannes.local>
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:52:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:36 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
>
> Should we publish something like this:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/wext-statement (don't want it indexed by
> google yet so you need to log on to view it), for example on lwn? Just
> so more application developers are also aware.
Yes, that seems fine to me.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 14:30 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
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 [this message]
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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