From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:13:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AB0C75.1090204@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420495519.14308.29.camel@x220>
On 01/05/15 23:05, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 19:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> Multiple other groups of ioctls could be converted in similar patches,
>> until at the end you can completely remove ipw_wx_handlers and rely
>> entirely on cfg80211's wext compatibility.
>>
>> So far the theory - in practice nobody cared enough to start working on
>> any of these drivers, let alone actually has the hardware today.
>
> So my suggestion to make ipw2200 no longer use cfg80211_wext_giwname()
> would actually be backwards. What's actually needed, in theory, is to
> use more of what's provided under CFG80211_WEXT (and, I guess, less of
> what's provided under WIRELESS_EXT). Did I get that right?
Yes, but as Johannes indicated it needs consideration what to group in
the patches.
Regards,
Arend
> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-05 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-03 14:59 [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT" Paul Bolle
2015-01-03 18:02 ` Marcel Holtmann
2015-01-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-03 22:28 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-03 22:28 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 10:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-01-05 10:20 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 10:14 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-05 17:38 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 18:22 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-05 18:57 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 22:05 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 22:05 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 22:13 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2015-01-06 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 13:26 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 8:03 ` Kalle Valo
2015-01-06 8:03 ` Kalle Valo
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