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Re: Insist on cfg80211 for new drivers?

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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:52:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Should we publish something like this:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/wext-statement (don't want it indexed by
> google yet so you need to log on to view it), for example on lwn? Just
> so more application developers are also aware.

Yes, that seems fine to me.

John
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