From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756654AbXFNT7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752926AbXFNT7R (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:59:17 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36214 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbXFNT7Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:59:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:56:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, dcbw@redhat.com, hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org Subject: Re: libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211 Message-Id: <20070614125618.a7338ad8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070614190936.GA28917@tuxdriver.com> References: <1181757483.29767.99.camel@johannes.berg> <20070614170901.GA13384@infradead.org> <20070614103836.23b07a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070614181307.GA16856@infradead.org> <20070614190936.GA28917@tuxdriver.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:09:36 -0400 "John W. Linville" wrote: > It does not make sense to me to rip this out purely for aesthetic > reasons. Aesthetics are good, but that's not the main issue. What is most worrying is that there appears to be a risk that these newly-added interfaces will later become obsoleted by another interface. This means that we'll need to maintain, test and support _both_ interfaces for a very long time. This is the sort of foot-shooting we should avoid.