From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 23:37:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211405864.3698.7.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521210352.GA11827@tuxdriver.com>
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> > I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further
> > objections to this patch?
>
> I think this is going to fall under the "userland ABI" category.
> We can make it a configurable option, but I don't think we are free
> to remove it completely since there is at least existing versions of
> HAL that use it.
Well, yes, I gave it a year in the feature removal schedule since I
thought nobody was actually using it. But if you look at how hal/sysfs
are always dependent on new versions of each other *anyway*, I think we
can get away with removing this in maybe two years time, and
distributors can unset the option if they know their hal is new enough?
johannes
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-17 12:12 [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1211026337.3827.25.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-17 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 13:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <CD993362-B1DE-4E4D-8A5B-E9E2AD7DA04C-kz+m5ild9QBg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-17 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-17 14:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <31B1A5D6-8E8B-4148-860F-326FEEE5A3EE-kz+m5ild9QBg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-17 14:42 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1211032475.6252.2.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-18 13:36 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1211117795.686.15.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-19 12:16 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-19 15:24 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1211210686.12187.6.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-19 15:39 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1211211547.6252.54.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-19 15:53 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-19 17:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-19 17:01 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2008-05-20 17:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-20 17:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <1211303731.6252.105.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-21 21:03 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-21 21:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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