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Message-ID: <21667.44627.825091.517424@gargle.gargle.HOWL> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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