Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

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From: Dave Jones
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2007 - 9:37 am

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:50:43AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:18:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > 	    By removing NET_RADIO, these changes pave the way to making wireless
 > 	    extensions optional when cfg80211 can fully take over for some drivers
 > 	    and you don't have any older drivers that still require wext.
 > 
 > Honestly, I'm tempted to add the pre-802.11 stuff to the features
 > removal list.  I wonder if any of it still actually works...

FWIW, I've built these drivers in Fedora for aeons, and never had a single
bug filed against them. Either they're perfect, or no-one has that junk
any more.  I should turn them off for a build and see if anyone complains :)

	Dave

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2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 7, 9:18 pm)
ext4, wireless (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1), Jeff Garzik, (Thu Mar 8, 2:59 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, John W. Linville, (Thu Mar 8, 7:50 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Dave Jones, (Thu Mar 8, 9:37 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Thu Mar 8, 10:56 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, John W. Linville, (Thu Mar 8, 11:34 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Thu Mar 8, 1:27 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Michal Piotrowski, (Thu Mar 8, 1:50 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Frederik Deweerdt, (Fri Mar 9, 4:40 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Fri Mar 9, 7:18 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Mar 10, 1:33 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Mar 10, 1:48 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Sat Mar 10, 1:58 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Greg KH, (Sat Mar 10, 2:18 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Jiri Kosina, (Sat Mar 10, 5:43 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Mar 10, 6:32 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Mar 10, 8:36 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Paul E. McKenney, (Sat Mar 10, 8:45 am)
Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Alan Stern, (Sat Mar 10, 9:00 am)
Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Sat Mar 10, 9:36 am)
Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Alan Stern, (Sat Mar 10, 12:02 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Radoslaw Szkodzinski, (Mon Mar 12, 11:14 am)
Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Mon Mar 12, 1:50 pm)
Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Jiri Kosina, (Mon Mar 12, 1:53 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Wed Mar 14, 12:06 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Andrew Morton, (Wed Mar 14, 6:07 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Wed Mar 14, 11:09 pm)
ipw2200: can't load firmware (was Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1), Frederik Deweerdt, (Thu Mar 15, 2:22 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mel Gorman, (Thu Mar 15, 3:16 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Thu Mar 15, 8:37 am)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mel Gorman, (Thu Mar 15, 12:59 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Thu Mar 15, 11:43 pm)
Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1, Mel Gorman, (Fri Mar 16, 3:03 am)