On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:27 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. Fair enough, no binary drivers. I don't have any problem with your patch. Just the comment "we don't want anybody to start relying on these" makes me confuse. Thanks, -yi -- 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
