linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

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Date:	Thu, 1 Jan 2015 01:40:53 +1100
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Cc:	"Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"egrumbach@...il.com" <egrumbach@...il.com>,
	"ilw@...ux.intel.com" <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable"

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 12/31/2014 08:26 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>
>>>> You mentioned in the discussion and I quote: "*If* wireless
>>>> maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to Linus for
>>>> consideration.". However, you did not wait for any response from the
>>>> wireless maintainers nor from the author of the patch you are reverting.
>>>> Seems like an overreaction to me though personally I do not disgree
>>>> with the revert itself.
>>>
>>> My understanding from the whole thread was that Emmanuel disagrees with
>>> the revert, and I consider Emmanuel to definitely belong to the "wireless
>>> maintainers" group. If my understanding was wrong on this, sorry for that.
>>
>> You understanding is wrong. This patch has an author and you could I didn't
>> sign-off the patch which is an obvious indication I am not a "wireless maintainer".
>> You didn't even make the minimal effort to check how this patch should be properly
>> routed.
>>
>> Regardless of all this, I didn't say I disagree, I said that we need to find a way to signal
>> the userland developers that an API will be deprecated at some point. I haven't seen
>> any response / suggestion from you on that.
>
> pr_notice_once("WEXT compatibility has been deprecated since _____" \
>                " Upgrade your userspace tools to nl80211!\n");

Sadly, nobody will read that. It needs to be at least an error,
possibly with a big splat to scare people.

Maybe using one of WARN()'s siblings instead.

Thanks,

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