linux-kernel - RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+

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Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:35:39 +0530
From:	Sujith Manoharan <sujith@...jith.org>
To:	"Grumbach\, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"egrumbach\@gmail.com" <egrumbach@...il.com>,
	"peter\@hurleysoftware.com" <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	"ilw\@linux.intel.com" <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Berg\, Johannes" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	"johannes\@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+

Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> I don't see this as another datapoint. All it means is that there are ancient
> drivers that won't work at all with newer tools and that are taken into
> consideration while trying to deprecate an API.

Not just drivers, tools and applications too.

I don't think we can ever lose the WEXT baggage since there will probably be
tools that will never migrate to nl80211. But, we can direct to /dev/null all
kernel bugs that are related to WEXT. :-)

Sujith
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