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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:32:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383589965.14295.18.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8287832.vyseD3v7Cm@blech> (sfid-20131104_171958_354595_246E4CB6)

On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 17:19 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:

> Yes, there is even more duplicated code if you factor in the (de-)fragmentation
> and deaggregation code from mac80211. Furthermore r92su could be sharing a bit 
> of infrastructure with rtlwifi.

Yeah, that some of that seems to be duplicated in mwifiex too. I think
there'd be some benefit in trying to share more. Maybe moving some to
cfg80211? Or some new module?

> I didn't include lib80211 since it reports mic failures via WEXT: 
> wireless_send_event(dev, IWEVMICHAELMICFAILURE, &wrqu, (char *)&ev);
> (And I don't think this can be changed easily without touching ipw2200
> and hostap-driver).

Yeah that'd be tricky, though I guess you could pass a wdev pointer and
allow it to be NULL or so.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-04 14:17 r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon? Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 14:21 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 15:34 ` Larry Finger
2013-11-04 15:47   ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 16:04     ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 16:15       ` Joshua Roys
2013-11-04 16:19       ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 18:32         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-11-04 19:10           ` Alexandre Demers
2013-11-04 16:06   ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 16:22     ` Larry Finger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-11-02 20:19 Alexandre Demers
2013-11-02 21:50 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-02 21:53 ` Larry Finger
2013-11-02 22:36   ` Alexandre Demers

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