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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:21:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The current situation seems to be designed to add the new one and removing > the old one as a single step. THAT IS BROKEN. This is not the case, I don't know where you got this idea. This is a *two* step process with a 6 month interval between the two steps. This was clearly detailed earlier in this thread. > The new one and the old one needs to work at the same time, exactly so > that there's a transition mechanism. Yes, this is precisely what we have been doing, the two APIs have been working at the same time for more than 6 months. > > That's exactly what it hinges on. What is your criteria for > > removing the old ESSID API. My understanding was 6 months. > > But we didn't have 6 months of the new API, did we? Yes, we had more of 6 months of the new API. Please check the facts : included April 11th in Gentoo. > People complained. Yes, maybe 6 months was two short. That's why I say that we should give it one or two more months. Maybe we need FC6 to be released. > The person you merged through explicitly said that if he had realized what > you did, he wouldn't have merged. I did not merge through Jeff. > Linus Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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