Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:25:01 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removal |
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John W. Linville wrote: > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> > > Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick > around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never > really used, this schedules it for removal. > > The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the > main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only > have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is > incomplete. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> > --- > Which you consider applying this feature-removal-schedule.txt patch > in the current (i.e. pre-2.6.21) timeframe? > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
When you send this sort of stuff, spam as many lists as reasonable.
The removal of a recently-added userspace ABI is an unusual event, and IMO needs discussing.
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