From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:40:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljn8t9ve.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090701193657.GD3473@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message of "Wed\, 1 Jul 2009 15\:36\:57 -0400")
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:
> 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...
Yes, we missed this one.
> is it time to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new
> drivers?
I vote for yes. In my books wext is depreceated and its use should be
avoided. After Johannes' excellent work we need to start pushing the use
of cfg80211 and nl80211.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 20:40 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 [this message]
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
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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