On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:31 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > 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. Sorry, my mistake, that should have read "don't want any binary drivers". Everyone is free to use them of course, but I want the option to remove them easily and without Ubuntu (...) complaining that it broke their latest wireless drivers. johannes
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