On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:08:24PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > 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. That is "within reason". If a driver is still needed there, I'l probably keep it, and will take each one on a case-by-case basis. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
