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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:32:09 +0200
From: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "wireless: Support of IFLA_INFO_KIND rtnl
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:02:52PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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
> 
I am really surprised, will dig into NM ...