netdev - Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 23:37:44 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them


> > 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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