Where to post Wireless Tools Patches
Hi, I want to know the mail id list to send a patch on Wireless Tools. Kindly reply ASAP. Thanks, Dibyajyoti -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Where to post Wireless Tools Patches
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 21:42 +0530, Dibyajyoti Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know the mail id list to send a patch on Wireless Tools. > Kindly reply ASAP. Assuming you mean the "wireless-tools" package, this list is OK. But probably nobody will apply the patches, since wireless-tools and the WEXT API are long-since deprecated and haven't been updated in probably 6 or 7 years. The bar to changes is quite high because of this, even for trivial ones. Instead, drivers and userspace tools have moved to the nl80211 APIs to replace WEXT and the 'iw' tool to replace 'iwconfig'. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Where to post Wireless Tools Patches
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 12:20 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Assuming you mean the "wireless-tools" package, this list is OK. But > probably nobody will apply the patches, since wireless-tools and the > WEXT API are long-since deprecated I don't think anyone even maintains the wireless-tools package any more. I don't know who would, anyway, since I haven't heard anything from Jean in many years. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Where to post Wireless Tools Patches
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 19:38 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 12:20 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > Assuming you mean the "wireless-tools" package, this list is OK. > > But > > probably nobody will apply the patches, since wireless-tools and > > the > > WEXT API are long-since deprecated > I don't think anyone even maintains the wireless-tools package any > more. I don't know who would, anyway, since I haven't heard anything > from Jean in many years. I was surprised to run into Jean at the 2015 OVS Fall Conference last November. He's spent the last few years shepherding OpenFlow specifications though formalization and hasn't done any work in wireless for a long long time. He also said he's extremely unlikely to do any wireless stuff now or in the future :) So yeah, wireless-tools is unmaintained. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html