From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3983 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435AbXLDP0X (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:26:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:25:38 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Dan Williams Cc: Holger Schurig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: questions regarding removing the depencency on CONFIG_IEEE80211 Message-ID: <20071204152538.GF19911@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20071204_152625_949526_A1849EC3) References: <200712041140.07516.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <200712041153.24896.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <1196780198.26155.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1196780198.26155.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:56:38AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:53 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote: > > 7. escape_ssid() > > > > This code from ieee80211 is used in various debug messages. > > Should I re-implement this locally in the driver? > > Part of the _point_ of depending on ieee80211 was so that we wouldn't > have a lot of pointless code duplication. Like this. ACK We've been talking about a new component for this kind of shared generic 802.11 code for some time. In my head I call it "lib80211". :-) Maybe it is time to start it? The header of a thousand bytes start with a single char... :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com