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Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?

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On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:36 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:35:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > That's really all I
> > care about, I don't want another WEXT-based driver accepted; I want all
> > the new ones using cfg80211.
> 
> Now there is a discussion we should have had in Berlin...is it time
> to insist on cfg80211-based configuration for all new drivers?

Can't imagine there would have been much discussion on that with the
crowd that was there -- I think we should. In fact, on the notes was
"publish a wext deprecation statement" or something like that.

Just like we insist that nobody adds an entirely new wireless stack, we
should insist that nobody add a new way of interpreting wext commands.

johannes

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