Re: hal, rfkill and compat-wireless (Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support)

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:34 -0600, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Inaky
> Perez-Gonzalez<inaky.perez-gonzalez@...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:05 -0600, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Luis R.
Rodriguez<mcgrof@...> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Marcel
Holtmann<marcel@...> wrote:
> >> >> Hi Luis,
> >> >>
> >> >>> > OK not so bad except for:
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > > kernel/net/wimax/wimax.ko
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > That's touching another subsystem but we could technically merge wimax
> >> >>> > into compat-wireless if Inaky thinks that's a good idea. the point
> >> >>> > here is to unify anything that uses rfkill for backport usage.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Oh boy, can of worms
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I have my own compat-wimax already, which already handles things for
> >> >>> backwards compat (many #ifdef hacks to simplify life) and which is
> >> >>> heavily used internally.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I don't really know how much worth it might be and I know I don't have
> >> >>> resources to support both.
> >> >>
> >> >> for the wireless-compat tree, I would just remove the RFKILL support for
> >> >> WiMAX. It is really not worth to support it.
> >> >