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.
prev parent 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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