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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:40:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061005124036.GA4624@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002170832.GB14535@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

Hi!

> > > 	That's exactly the point of this warning (some distro like to
> > > kill it), I think it spells pretty clearly what's wrong. Don't say I
> > > did not warn you...
> > 
> > Well... we are trying to have stable abi here. Breaking older wireless
> > tools randomly is *not* okay in the middle of stable series.
> 
> 	I'm sorry, but as there is no longer any "devel" serie, to me
> there is no longer any "stable" serie. Do you mean that we are going
> to get frozen with the same APIs until then end of time ? I don't
> think so...

I mean that proprt procedure for removing APIs needs to be followed,
and that is deprecating them in Doc*/feature-removal-schedule, along
with date, waiting a year, then removing them.

> 	You can see the glass half-full or half-empty. Maybe you can

No, not in this case.
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-06 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 19:25 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 20:29 ` John W. Linville
2006-09-29 20:40   ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 21:27     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:04       ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 22:24         ` Dave Jones
2006-09-29 23:18           ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:43         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:52           ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-30 12:27             ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-30 18:37               ` Dave Jones
2006-09-30 20:35                 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 17:11               ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-01 19:08         ` Jouni Malinen
2006-09-30 19:38       ` wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA) Pavel Machek
2006-10-01  5:23         ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-02 17:08         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 12:40           ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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