From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: questions regarding removing the depencency on CONFIG_IEEE80211
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:25:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204152538.GF19911@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196780198.26155.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:56:38AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:53 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > 7. escape_ssid()
> >
> > This code from ieee80211 is used in various debug messages.
> > Should I re-implement this locally in the driver?
>
> Part of the _point_ of depending on ieee80211 was so that we wouldn't
> have a lot of pointless code duplication. Like this.
ACK
We've been talking about a new component for this kind of
shared generic 802.11 code for some time. In my head I call it
"lib80211". :-)
Maybe it is time to start it? The header of a thousand bytes start
with a single char... :-)
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 10:40 questions regarding removing the depencency on CONFIG_IEEE80211 Holger Schurig
2007-12-04 10:53 ` Holger Schurig
2007-12-04 14:56 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-04 15:25 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-12-04 15:29 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-04 15:54 ` Holger Schurig
2007-12-04 16:59 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-04 17:10 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-04 16:58 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-04 15:04 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-04 15:47 ` Holger Schurig
2007-12-04 15:56 ` Dan Williams
2007-12-04 16:57 ` Johannes Berg
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