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Re: hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support)

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>>> > OK not so bad except for:
>>> >
>>> > > kernel/net/wimax/wimax.ko
>>> >
>>> > That's touching another subsystem but we could technically merge wimax
>>> > into compat-wireless if Inaky thinks that's a good idea. the point
>>> > here is to unify anything that uses rfkill for backport usage.
>>>
>>> Oh boy, can of worms
>>>
>>> I have my own compat-wimax already, which already handles things for
>>> backwards compat (many #ifdef hacks to simplify life) and which is
>>> heavily used internally.
>>>
>>> I don't really know how much worth it might be and I know I don't have
>>> resources to support both.
>>
>> for the wireless-compat tree, I would just remove the RFKILL support for
>> WiMAX. It is really not worth to support it.
>
> Works for me, we then still need to address (if we really care) the
> platform stuff. If someone is interested feel free to send patches to
> add those, I figure as long we get down to the latest supported stable
> kernel it should be good. The latest supported stable kernel is always
> on display on kernel,org, today being 2.6.27.

BTW inaky -- this is actually up to you, are you wiling to live with
no rfkill for compat?

  Luis
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