From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
To: "Grumbach\, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"egrumbach\@gmail.com" <egrumbach@gmail.com>,
"peter\@hurleysoftware.com" <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
"ilw\@linux.intel.com" <ilw@linux.intel.com>, "Berg\,
Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
"johannes\@sipsolutions.net" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:35:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21667.44627.825091.517424@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0BA3FCBA62E2DC44AF3030971E174FB31B5DD429@hasmsx107.ger.corp.intel.com>
Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> I don't see this as another datapoint. All it means is that there are ancient
> drivers that won't work at all with newer tools and that are taken into
> consideration while trying to deprecate an API.
Not just drivers, tools and applications too.
I don't think we can ever lose the WEXT baggage since there will probably be
tools that will never migrate to nl80211. But, we can direct to /dev/null all
kernel bugs that are related to WEXT. :-)
Sujith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-31 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-30 13:33 Jiri Kosina
2014-12-30 14:23 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-12-30 14:34 ` Peter Hurley
2014-12-30 14:38 ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-30 15:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-30 20:28 ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-30 20:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-30 21:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-12-30 22:35 ` Larry Finger
2014-12-30 22:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-30 22:52 ` [PATCH] Revert "cfg80211: make WEXT compatibility unselectable" Jiri Kosina
2014-12-31 7:44 ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-31 11:09 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 11:10 ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-31 11:45 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 14:07 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-31 15:02 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 17:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-31 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-31 20:32 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 21:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-31 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-31 22:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-31 22:41 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-01 0:22 ` David Lang
2015-01-01 11:32 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-01-01 19:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-01-01 20:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-02 4:04 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-01-05 7:26 ` Michal Kubecek
2014-12-31 22:30 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 15:14 ` Andreas Hartmann
2014-12-31 19:48 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-01 10:56 ` Andreas Hartmann
2015-01-01 12:25 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-12-31 13:10 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-31 13:26 ` Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-31 13:49 ` Peter Hurley
2014-12-31 14:40 ` Julian Calaby
2014-12-31 14:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-12-31 14:56 ` Julian Calaby
2014-12-31 15:03 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-12-31 15:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-01-02 5:11 ` Pavel Machek
2014-12-31 16:43 ` Paul Bolle
2014-12-31 7:50 ` iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ Grumbach, Emmanuel
2014-12-31 8:05 ` Sujith Manoharan [this message]
2014-12-31 13:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-12-30 15:03 ` Jiri Kosina
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