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Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> > 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?
>
> there is really nothing much to discuss on this topic. The plan is to
> deprecate WEXT, that simple. So if the driver has no cfg80211 support,
> then it will not be included. Period.
>
> Send such drivers off to staging and let them have their 6 month.  Then
> we either remove them again or they got ported to cfg80211.

6 months only in staging ? Is this a rule now for staging?

  Luis
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