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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>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	 Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni	 <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jeff Johnson	 <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
	 Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	 linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	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

      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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