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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, me@bobcopeland.com,
	mickflemm@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:45:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339425944.4520.27.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD60369.80108@qca.qualcomm.com>

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> > I still don't see the need. What would you put under it in
> > brcm[sf]mac? I certainly wouldn't see any reason to put anything
> > under it in our driver since it's much simpler to .
> 
> Looks like something is missing here?

Sorry, yeah,  Iwas going to say it's simpler to put something under the
driver's Kconfig.

> > Also, the argument about distros doesn't really work that way, if
> > there are users interested in something then the distros will
> > certainly enable this (CFG80211_EXPERT) option to get something
> > hidden behind it.
> 
> I would compare this with NL80211_TESTMODE, we don't want distributions
> to enable that either. Of course nothing prevents distros to enable
> CFG80211_EXPERT but we need to be active to make sure it's not enabled
> (ie. check the distro configs and file bugs etc).

Right, but that's actually a feature. I see little value in a pretty
much meaningless "EXPERT wireless" Kconfig symbol that only groups
others. If, as Arend suggested, it actually has some meaning, then it
may make more sense.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-09  0:51 [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09  0:51 ` [RFC 1/3] cfg80211: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09  0:51 ` [RFC 2/3] ath5k: replace modparam_all_channels with CONFIG_ATH5K_TEST_CHANNELS Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09  0:51 ` [RFC 3/3] ath9k: make CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED depend on CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09  7:55 ` [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Johannes Berg
2012-06-09 19:51   ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-11  7:32     ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 14:40       ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-11 14:45         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-06-11 15:46           ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-14 19:31           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-15  8:16             ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-15  8:21               ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 11:06                 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-15 16:09                   ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 16:53                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-16 12:13                       ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-18 15:37                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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