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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: mark all WEXT handlers _GPL

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On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:27 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > 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.

s/released a driver/released a binary driver/

After all, I'm saying they're ok for _GPL -- since that means in the
case this actually happens we can then easily convert that driver too.

johannes

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