On 24/04/14 07:27 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > It was recently brought to my attention (see below) that we still ship > net-tools in Arch. Should we perhaps start working on dropping that? I > regularly run into users who use it without knowing that it is dead > and broken. Moving it to the AUR would hopefully send the right > message... > > I know that this will probably upset people's muscle-memory as most > people probably have been using these tools for decades. I guess > that's not an insurmountable problem for us though? > > Cheers, > > Tom
This also applies to wireless_tools (and the entire kernel stack it uses) being deprecated in favour of iw. Sadly there are a bunch of poorly maintained drivers not ported to the new stack... all of the ones listed here[1] as not having cfg80211 support are a problem. I'm not sure if there's anything we can do about this yet. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
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