On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 09:08 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 00:49 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > > The fact that these are exported is a technical detail > > of the conversion period -- we don't want anybody to > > start relying on these. Ultimately we want things to > > use cfg80211 only, and once everything that is in wext > > is converted to cfg80211 drivers will not need to touch > > wext _at all_. > > Johannes, why don't you want them to be used by others, say some fullmac > drivers? These functions can be used as glue from wext to cfg80211 in > the conversion period. After cfg80211 is ultimately used, they can be > removed all together of course. I don't expect any binary drivers to start using them anyway, but on the odd chance that somebody was considering that ... I just don't want any arguments at the conversion point that "we still need these symbols because we released a driver that uses them" which would mean we couldn't actually convert properly. johannes
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