On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 07:50:19AM +, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> Now - basically all your argument is on Johannes's comment:
> "deprecated enough". I think we have a chicken and egg problem here.
> We can't break things towards userland. Good. But we do want to
> deprecate this API because lot
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
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> > > > If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert
> > > > request to Linus for consideration.
> > >
> > > I wonder if the reaction would be like this one:
> > >
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > It wo
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Larry Finger wrote:
> > > If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to
> > > Linus for consideration.
> >
> > I wonder if the reaction would be like this one:
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
> >
> > :-)
>
> It would be a little like th
On 12/30/2014 03:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:41:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to
Linus for consideration.
I wonder if the reaction would be like this one:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
:-)
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:41:41PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> If wireless maintainers think otherwise, I'll send a revert request to
> Linus for consideration.
I wonder if the reaction would be like this one:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
:-)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fa
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> You should also have the iw tool which will provide all you need
> using the nl80211 interface which is now the preferred interface.
There indeed is an iw tool.
The thing is really as simple as -- userspace which is calling other
wireless-utils d
On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 16:21 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
>
> > > > So why do you used them?
> > > > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be
> > > > using nl80211 based tools such as iw.
> > >
> > > A couple of years is not v
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
> > > So why do you used them?
> > > They have been deprecated for a couple of years now. You should be
> > > using nl80211 based tools such as iw.
> >
> > A couple of years is not very long where userspace is concerned.
> >
> Well - the decently ne
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s thinkpad, and
> > wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 interface has no
> > wireless extensions.
>
> So why do you used them?
> They have been deprecated for a couple of
>
> On 12/30/2014 09:23 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s
> >> thinkpad, and wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0
> >> interface has no wireless
On 12/30/2014 09:23 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s thinkpad, and
>> wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 interface has no
>> wireless extensions.
>>
>
>
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just booted current Linus' tree (5faa0154fe33) on my x200s thinkpad, and
> wifi doesn't work. iwconfig is telling me that wlan0 interface has no
> wireless extensions.
>
So why do you used them?
They have been deprecated for a coup
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