From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707311139.54521.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707302223.04696.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2007 16:05, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > I suggest you look at bcm43xx-mac80211.
> > You will need to introduce refcounting for your monitor interfaces
> > and I _really_ suggest to get rid of the zd_op_open() and zd_op_close()
> > functions. Just include that in add/remove interface. You need
> > to refcount your interfaces anyway.
> >
> Requiring refcounting for monitor interfaces is fairly dumb since mac80211
> does the exact same refcounting. I haven't bothered to do it in any driver
> ports yet for this reason. This part of the mac80211 driver api needs to be
> fixed.
I'm talking about _current_ API. And with current API you need refcounting.
If you want to change that, that's fine. But that doesn't matter here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070730023128.99E927B409F@zog.reactivated.net>
2007-07-30 3:21 ` [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops Michael Wu
2007-07-30 14:51 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-30 22:52 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-07-30 23:05 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-30 23:25 ` Andy Green
2007-07-31 21:12 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:30 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 21:42 ` Andy Green
2007-07-31 21:50 ` Andy Green
2007-07-31 5:22 ` Michael Wu
2007-07-31 9:39 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-07-31 21:06 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 5:06 ` Michael Wu
2007-07-31 21:00 ` Jiri Benc
2007-07-31 21:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 22:10 ` Jiri Benc
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