Re: [RFC] Alternate WE-21 support (core API)

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 22:55, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:00:05PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 06:51 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't know about the others, but long/short retry limits have users
> > > (e.g., Host AP driver) and these drivers are currently forced to use a
> > > hack to do this without this cleanup. Furthermore, this part does not
> > > add a new ioctl.
> > 
> > It does, however, add new parameters and things that'd need to be
> > translated in the compat layer later. Hence, even there, I'd prefer to
> > add them directly into nl80211. However, the compat code for that
> > shouldn't be that bad, so I can see that as a softer target :) But I
> > don't want to see new ioctls for sure.
> 
> OK, I think we all agree that there are good parts to Jean's WE-21
> patch.  Below I've made an attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff
> (or to cut the baby in half)...
> 
> Is this patch acceptable to the group?  Does it make things better?
> Or worse?  Did I leave-out anything that should still go in?  Did I
> take too much?
> 
> Let me know what you think...?

I am OK with this.

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Greetings Michael.