From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992874AbXCCBZN (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:25:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992877AbXCCBZM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:25:12 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:55642 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992871AbXCCBZG (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:25:06 -0500 Message-ID: <45E8CE6D.6000801@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:25:01 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal References: <20070301153105.GC5806@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20070301153105.GC5806@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John W. Linville wrote: > From: Johannes Berg > > Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick > around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never > really used, this schedules it for removal. > > The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the > main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only > have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is > incomplete. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > --- > Which you consider applying this feature-removal-schedule.txt patch > in the current (i.e. pre-2.6.21) timeframe? > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) When you send this sort of stuff, spam as many lists as reasonable. The removal of a recently-added userspace ABI is an unusual event, and IMO needs discussing.