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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:40:37 +0000 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com> Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA) Hi! > > > That's exactly the point of this warning (some distro like to > > > kill it), I think it spells pretty clearly what's wrong. Don't say I > > > did not warn you... > > > > Well... we are trying to have stable abi here. Breaking older wireless > > tools randomly is *not* okay in the middle of stable series. > > I'm sorry, but as there is no longer any "devel" serie, to me > there is no longer any "stable" serie. Do you mean that we are going > to get frozen with the same APIs until then end of time ? I don't > think so... I mean that proprt procedure for removing APIs needs to be followed, and that is deprecating them in Doc*/feature-removal-schedule, along with date, waiting a year, then removing them. > You can see the glass half-full or half-empty. Maybe you can No, not in this case. -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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