Johannes Berg wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:20 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
Sure, it is way more better. But again, it's the question of
compatibility. I think that at least for some time the new netlink API
and WE should coexist. After some time, WE support can be removed.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put compatibility one layer up by
introducing a new helper command 'iwconfig' that has the same user-level
syntax but calls the netlink api instead?
I agree with Jiri's base assertion -- we shouldn't completely obliterate
the userland API immediately, since Linux's holy grail is not breaking
userland.
They may mean carrying some compat code in the kernel for a while, or
some other solution... The compat code could simply call netlink
internally, for example.
Jeff
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