From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
lrodriguez@atheros.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
mcgrof@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] compat-wireless: rename {free,alloc}_ieee80211 to {free,alloc}_libipw
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:44:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268369072.6763.5.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69e28c911003111816m4bf0d04dnc94a387b3d42f05b@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:16 +0100, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> I believe this should be done upstream for 2.6.35 as well - this
> "_ieee80211" is not a reference to the name of the IEEE 802.11
> specification, but rather to the old name of libipw - "ieee80211";
> this was somehow missed during the libipw rename.
Also the "ieee80211" prefix is used in libipw messages, and should be
replaced as well.
However, one thing may need to keep the original name. If
CONFIG_LIBIPW_DEBUG is enabled, /proc/net/ieee80211 is created. Perhaps
it would be unhelpful to break that user interface for aesthetic
purposes.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 21:32 [PATCH 0/5] compat-wireless: various patches Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] compat: update bitops.h Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] compat-wireless: rename {free,alloc}_ieee80211 to {free,alloc}_libipw Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-12 2:16 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-03-12 4:44 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] compat: backport PCMCIA_DEVICE_PROD_ID3 Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-12 1:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] compat-wireless: add orinoco to compat-wireless Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-12 1:05 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-03-12 1:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] compat-wireless: fix building of iwmc3200wifi Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] compat-wireless: remove some uneeded header files Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] compat-wireless: update config symbols Hauke Mehrtens
2010-03-12 1:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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