netdev - Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-06-03

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:54:20 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-06-03

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:16:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:09:43 -0400
> 
> > Kirill A. Shutemov (1):
> >       wireless.h: improve userland include-ability
> 
> I'm not pulling this into my tree.  I've already replied
> to that patch posting saying why I don't like this.

For the record, I didn't get that posting until just _after_ I got this
reply from you -- a mail server somewhere must have had indigestion!

> Even if I found this change as the only way to go and therefore
> had to take it in, the commit log is way too terse about what
> the problem is.  And it must describe the horrifics that are
> now necessary to include this file in userspace after the change.

FWIW, I'll take the blame for the overly terse commit log...

> There is zero point in us sanitizing kernel headers for userspace
> usage if this kind of crap is still necessary.  I mean tell me, why
> should we even bother in that case?  And this is why I'm not taking in
> this changeset.

Please see the discussion on the other thread, in case you have
something to add or something there persuades you.  In the meantime,
I retract this pull request and will soon follow with a rebased pull
request that expunges the wireless.h commit.

John
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John W. Linville
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