Jean, > First, I'm the current active maintainer of the > wext-over-netlink interface, and nobody bothered to even 'inform' me > about its removal, let alone consult with me.
I definitely should have copied you on the feature-removal schedule patch for wext-over-netlink and then the actual removal in wireless-dev; please accept my apologies for not doing that, it was not done in bad faith. It was never my intention to demote you to a "second class citizen", I'm sorry you feel that way. I have previously (and multiple times) given technical justification for removing this code (even recorded in the kernel changelog now) and I contend your allegation that it is a political issue. Others in this thread have pointed out the technical issues with wext and wext/nl so I will not repeat them. I hope that despite my mistakes in handling the wext/nl removal we will be able to work together in the future to have wext fully supported with clear semantics for backwards compatibility while the kernel internally migrates towards cfg80211. johannes
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