> We're considering removing support for Wireless Extensions from > NetworkManager in Fedora 32 time frame. > > A more modern Wi-Fi configuration API, cfg802111/nl80211, has been > available since 2007 and maybe there's no point in carrying the > maintenance burden anymore. It seems reasonable to assume that all > relevant and actively maintained wireless drivers have been ported. Is there a way to see which upstream wireless drivers don't support cfg802111/nl80211 by grepping an include or similar? There's a few tools in Fedora that still use the userspace side of things for wext. Overall I would like see it removed :) > If anyone sees good a reason not to carry out the removal, please speak > up. > > Thank you > Lubo > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
