From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ortiz, Samuel" <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 09:38:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090521133839.GA2744@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242897719.5471.1.camel@johannes.local>
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:09 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
>
> > > Isn't lib80211 a better place for those ?
> > > Its purpose is sharing code between fullmac and softmac drivers.
> >
> > These functions are moved from mac80211 which currently doesn't link
> > with lib80211. Johannes might have more to comment.
>
> Yeah, lib80211's stated purpose is to share code, but on the other hand
> code that mac80211 and fullmac drivers may need seems better suited in
> cfg80211 since lib80211 also ships a large code bit of crypto routines
> etc. that are just useless for this and mac80211.
The crypto stuff is mostly in separate modules.
I would rather see these in lib80211, but I'll work that out myself.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-21 2:18 [Announce] Intel Wireless Multicomm 3200 WiFi driver Zhu Yi
2009-05-21 2:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211 Zhu Yi
2009-05-21 2:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] iwmc3200wifi: Add new Intel Wireless Multicomm 802.11 driver Zhu Yi
2009-05-21 2:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-05-21 3:13 ` Zhu Yi
2009-05-21 7:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211 drago01
2009-05-21 7:09 ` Zhu Yi
2009-05-21 9:21 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 13:38 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-05-21 13:56 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 14:10 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-05-21 14:41 ` John W. Linville
2009-05-21 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 9:32 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 11:53 ` Zhu, Yi
2009-05-21 16:10 ` [Announce] Intel Wireless Multicomm 3200 WiFi driver Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 17:54 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-05-21 17:57 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-21 18:23 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-05-26 22:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-05-31 2:17 ` Zhu Yi
2009-05-31 6:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-05-31 6:42 ` Zhu Yi
2009-05-31 12:10 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-05-31 12:20 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-06-01 1:29 ` Zhu Yi
2009-06-01 22:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-02 7:36 ` Zhu Yi
2009-06-01 23:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-06-02 7:42 ` Zhu Yi
2009-06-02 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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