linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

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Message-ID: <4E4C4CC2.2070702@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:20:34 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
CC:	Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com>,
	Pavel Ivanov <paivanof@...il.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jmalinen@...eros.com>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@...eros.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make driver usable standalone

On 08/17/2011 05:51 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:25:49 +0200, Gábor Stefanik said:
>
>> Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless
>> configuration tool.
>
> Somebody better tell Fedora Rawhide - as of the version released on July 27,
> their 'initscripts' RPM was still using iwconfig in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless
>
> So don't be quite so fast to be declaring WIRELESS_EXT dead just yet.

Well, any distro is free to include any package they want. They can even devote 
resources to maintaining it after it is abandoned. Given the feelings among 
developers about the WEXT methods, I doubt that will happen.

The distro is also including one of the drivers that need WEXT, which is what 
the OP refused to do. If and when all such drivers are converted or removed, the 
distro is still free to patch in the WEXT code, but again I doubt that will happen.

Anyone using deprecated methods has been warned.

Larry
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