From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:48707 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753342AbXC2LIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:08:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] remove another wext/netlink comment From: Johannes Berg To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:10:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1175119840.8807.0.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Looks like I missed this when removing wext/nl. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/wext-old.c | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) --- wireless-dev.orig/net/wireless/wext-old.c 2007-03-29 00:01:28.645833397 +0200 +++ wireless-dev/net/wireless/wext-old.c 2007-03-29 00:01:43.785833397 +0200 @@ -586,30 +586,6 @@ int wireless_process_ioctl(struct ifreq return -EINVAL; } -/********************** RTNETLINK REQUEST API **********************/ -/* - * The alternate user space API to configure all those Wireless Extensions - * is through RtNetlink. - * This API support only the new driver API (iw_handler). - * - * This RtNetlink API use the same query/reply model as the ioctl API. - * Maximum effort has been done to fit in the RtNetlink model, and - * we support both RtNetlink Set and RtNelink Get operations. - * On the other hand, we don't offer Dump operations because of the - * following reasons : - * o Large number of parameters, most optional - * o Large size of some parameters (> 100 bytes) - * o Each parameters need to be extracted from hardware - * o Scan requests can take seconds and disable network activity. - * Because of this high cost/overhead, we want to return only the - * parameters the user application is really interested in. - * We could offer partial Dump using the IW_DESCR_FLAG_DUMP flag. - * - * The API uses the standard RtNetlink socket. When the RtNetlink code - * find a IFLA_WIRELESS field in a RtNetlink SET_LINK request, - * it calls here. - */ - /********************** ENHANCED IWSPY SUPPORT **********************/ /* * In the old days, the driver was handling spy support all by itself.