Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 23:37:44 +0200 |
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> > I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further > > objections to this patch? > > I think this is going to fall under the "userland ABI" category. > We can make it a configurable option, but I don't think we are free > to remove it completely since there is at least existing versions of > HAL that use it.
Well, yes, I gave it a year in the feature removal schedule since I thought nobody was actually using it. But if you look at how hal/sysfs are always dependent on new versions of each other *anyway*, I think we can get away with removing this in maybe two years time, and distributors can unset the option if they know their hal is new enough?
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