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I have filed a patch to fix HAL to use the canonical SIOCGIWNAME at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16037. Any further
objections to this patch?

I think this is going to fall under the "userland ABI" category.
We can make it a configurable option, but I don't think we are free
to remove it completely since there is at least existing versions of
HAL that use it.

Well, yes, I gave it a year in the feature removal schedule since I
thought nobody was actually using it. But if you look at how hal/sysfs
are always dependent on new versions of each other *anyway*, I think we
can get away with removing this in maybe two years time, and
distributors can unset the option if they know their hal is new enough?

johannes