On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:06:29PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 18:34, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:48:39PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:09 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > > I strongly ACK the use of rtnetlink, but I leave it to John Linville
> > > > (wireless maintainer) to do a full review, and merge...
> > >
> > > The question is just -- do we really want another interface that is
> > > going to be deprecated in the long run?
> >
> > Everything is eventually replaced in the long run. The
> > question there is how long is the long run...
> > It may be a bit too early to make definite statements about
> > the new Wireless interface, however I have a strong feeling that it
> > may not support all wireless drivers we have in the kernel, at least
> > not in its first incarnation. One of the proposal I've seen was
> > strongly tied to the new 802.11 stack, which is good because it will
> > make a rich API, but not all driver may be ported to the new 802.11
> > stack, especially non-802.11 drivers.
>
> Would you agree with waiting until the wireless summit at osdl is over?
Do you guys plan to release some new code at osdl ?
> Greetings Michael.
Jean
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