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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [-mm patch] include/net/ieee80211.h must #include <linux/wireless.h>
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Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Wouldn't the proper fix be to just remove this backwards compatibility
> code since WIRELESS_EXT is actually 18 in this tree anyway.. Is there
> valid need to keep this header file compatible with older kernel
> versions?

Nope.  Ripping out such back-compat code would be quite acceptable.

	Jeff