schedule wext/rtnl for removal
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Quoted 11 lines · John W. Linville
From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really used, this schedules it for removal.
The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete.
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Signed-off-by Johannes Berg <[email protected]>Signed-off-by John W. Linville <[email protected]>---
Which you consider applying this feature-removal-schedule.txt patch in the current (i.e. pre-2.6.21) timeframe?Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
When you send this sort of stuff, spam as many lists as reasonable.
The removal of a recently-added userspace ABI is an unusual event, and IMO needs discussing.