From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
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Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove driver using deprecated API wext
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:06:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edc31a6341e810e23c342f1e90776a3e764c4924.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cecd584c-46c0-4c0b-b3fb-b5cee4bbfd12@app.fastmail.com>
On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 05:15 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> I would assume that once removing CFG80211_WEXT becomes an option, we
> can just put the remaining parts of net/wireless/wext-*.c into both
> ps3_gelic and ipw2x00, duplicating and then simplifying the
> implementation. As far as I can tell, there is very little that is
> actually shared between the two anyway.
Indeed.
Note that net/wireless/wext-{core,proc,priv}.c are not even related to
CFG80211_WEXT (wext-{compat,sme}.c are), and just form the core wext
code that can be treated completely orthogonal and independent of
cfg80211. This driver doesn't even use CFG80211_WEXT code at all.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-06 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-24 8:07 [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove driver using deprecated API wext Philipp Hortmann
2024-12-30 8:22 ` Johannes Berg
2025-01-03 6:44 ` Philipp Hortmann
2025-01-03 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-01-03 9:14 ` David Woodhouse
2025-01-03 9:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-01-03 9:32 ` Johannes Berg
2025-01-03 11:02 ` Philipp Hortmann
2025-01-03 11:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-01-03 11:28 ` Philipp Hortmann
2025-01-03 12:44 ` Johannes Berg
2025-01-04 4:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-01-06 8:06 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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