From: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>,
Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:25:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061119172528.GA26466@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163955459.15473.28.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 05:57:39PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 08:55 -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
>
> > ok. I am concerned that making this split between per driver and per
> > card is difficult to get right. Setting or not setting a function
> > pointer for an operation is fairly standard practice and I don't see
> > the value in introducing yet another way to indicate support.
>
> I guess we can punt this patch until some driver shows up that actually
> has some cards that need the function and some that don't. I'm actually
> guessing such a driver won't exist but wanted this for completeness in
> the split between _wiphy and _ops.
Perhaps that is a split that we do not need? I don't see the problem
that 'd80211: split ieee80211_hw' is solving. I do see what it is
doing, but maybe I am missing something . . .
>
> johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-19 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 22:27 [PATCH 0/10] d80211: move away from wmaster towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-17 22:50 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove useless driver name field Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:32 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-11-20 18:40 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-20 22:33 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:44 ` Michael Wu
2006-11-17 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/10] d80211: move away from wmaster towards wiphy Pavel Roskin
2006-11-18 0:16 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-18 23:53 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove IEEE80211_CONF_SW_{EN,DE}CRYPT Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:16 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 0:04 ` [PATCH] d80211: remove calib_int Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 0:21 ` [PATCH] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 15:56 ` David Kimdon
2006-11-19 16:34 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:55 ` David Kimdon
2006-11-19 16:57 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 17:25 ` David Kimdon [this message]
2006-11-19 17:54 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 16:15 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 16:35 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:18 ` [PATCH 0/13] move d80211 away from netdev towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:22 ` [PATCH 1/13] d80211: clean up some stupid list and loop code Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 11:01 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 11:58 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:55 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:23 ` [PATCH 2/13] d80211: reduce mdev usage Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:23 ` [PATCH 3/13] " Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:26 ` [PATCH 4/13] d80211: reduce mdev usage, change ieee80211_rx_mgmt Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 12:08 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 12:25 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:27 ` [PATCH 5/13] d80211: reduce master ieee80211_ptr deref in scan routines Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:28 ` [PATCH 6/13] d80211: change the identifier netdev to ieee80211_hw Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 17:57 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-20 18:04 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:52 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 22:45 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-21 17:48 ` [PATCH] d80211: use ieee80211_hw.dev Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:29 ` [PATCH 7/13] d80211: add a perm_addr hardware property Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 23:20 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 18:54 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:29 ` [PATCH 8/13] d80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_FRAG flag Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:30 ` [PATCH 9/13] d80211: remove useless driver name field Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 10/13] bcm43xx: update to new d80211 driver API Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:43 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-19 19:52 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:31 ` [PATCH 11/13] d80211: remove IEEE80211_CONF_SW_{EN,DE}CRYPT Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:32 ` [PATCH 12/13] d80211: remove calib_int Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 19:33 ` [PATCH 13/13] d80211: fix scan issues with new ops Johannes Berg
2006-11-19 23:32 ` [PATCH 0/13] move d80211 away from netdev towards wiphy Johannes Berg
2006-11-20 19:14 ` Jiri Benc
2006-11-22 19:18 ` [RFC 0/3] more power to cfg80211 Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:22 ` [RFC 1/3] cfg80211: handle wiphy, use wiphy in netdev, do wiphy sysfs Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:24 ` [RFC 2/3] d80211: use new wiphy stuff from cfg80211 Johannes Berg
2006-11-22 19:25 ` [RFC 3/3] bcm43xx: API update Johannes Berg
2006-12-11 13:03 ` [RFC 0/3] more power to cfg80211 Jiri Benc
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