Search Linux Wireless

Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Luis,

> >> > 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?

that is what Greg mentioned to me. If there is no activity for 6 month
and the driver is not getting anywhere, he going to drop it.

Regards

Marcel


--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux