Messages in this thread | | | From | Sujith Manoharan <> | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:35:39 +0530 | Subject | RE: iwlwifi-driver card doesn't work with 3.19-rc2+ |
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Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > I don't see this as another datapoint. All it means is that there are ancient > drivers that won't work at all with newer tools and that are taken into > consideration while trying to deprecate an API.
Not just drivers, tools and applications too.
I don't think we can ever lose the WEXT baggage since there will probably be tools that will never migrate to nl80211. But, we can direct to /dev/null all kernel bugs that are related to WEXT. :-)
Sujith
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