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? -- Greetings Michael.
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