From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] lib80211: absorb crypto bits from net/ieee80211
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:19:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226513943.16649.0.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081112180228.GC2411@tuxdriver.com>
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 13:02 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:48:34AM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:51 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > These bits are shared already between ipw2x00 and hostap, and could
> > > probably be shared both more cleanly and with other drivers. This
> > > commit simply relocates the code to lib80211 and adjusts the drivers
> > > appropriately.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Wouldn't it have been better to start from the mac80211 crypto bits
> > as lib80211 and modify hostap/ipw2x00 to use the 'new' lib80211
> > crypto bits?
>
> I'm sorry, but you forgot to attach your patches...
>
I will if it's desired, I just wanted to know if there was a particular
reason for going this way.
Cheers,
Harvey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-11 21:51 [RFC PATCH 1/4] lib80211: absorb crypto bits from net/ieee80211 John W. Linville
2008-11-11 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] lib80211: consolidate crypt init routines John W. Linville
2008-11-11 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] ipw2x00: relocate ipw2100/ipw2200 to common directory John W. Linville
2008-11-11 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] net/ieee80211 -> drivers/net/ipw2x00/libipw_* rename John W. Linville
2008-11-11 22:22 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-11 23:21 ` John W. Linville
2008-11-12 3:27 ` Julian Calaby
2008-11-12 10:29 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-12 10:39 ` Julian Calaby
2008-11-12 16:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] lib80211: absorb crypto bits from net/ieee80211 Harvey Harrison
2008-11-12 18:02 ` John W. Linville
2008-11-12 18:19 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-11-12 18:28 ` John W. Linville
2008-11-12 18:35 ` John W. Linville
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