On Wed 2014-12-31 08:49:00, Peter Hurley 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"); Kernel interfaces are not being removed, not now, not ever. No need to spam logs. (And to the person who suggested WARN(): No.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html