From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:25:01 -0500 Message-ID: <45E8CE6D.6000801@garzik.org> References: <20070301153105.GC5806@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070301153105.GC5806-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.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.