On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:54:54PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > This is an ioctl obsoleted by the monitor mode years ago. Using it > would trigger a deprecation warning. As the wireless drivers > standardize on the radiotap standard, the "monitor" ioctl cannot be > preserved to work as obsolete software expects. I don't follow the login here... Why "cannot be preserved"? I might go with "we do not want to preserve this", but I do not see any technical reason that would prevent us from supporting existing user space interface that has been used in the past and may still be in use. Since this may break existing user space programs, I do not think this should go in. Obviously, same goes for removal of the actual use of this parameter and support for different header formats in patch 5/5. Adding support for radiotap format is of course reasonable, but I would be more careful with removing existing functionality which may still be in use. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA -- 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
