Re: question about ieee80211_tx.c (fwd)

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:32:08AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:13:41AM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:50 +0800, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Julia Lawall<julia@diku.dk> wrote:
> > > > > The files ieee80211_tx.c in the directories
> > > > > drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211 and
> > > > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/ieee80211
> > > > > both contain the following code in the function
> > > > > ieee80211_query_protectionmode:
> > > > >
> > > > >       if (ieee->mode == IW_MODE_MASTER)
> > > > >                        goto NO_PROTECTION;
> > > > >
> > > > > Elsewhere in these files when there is a comparison against an
> > > > IW_MODE
> > > > > value, the field that is compared is iw_mode.  Should that be the
> > > > case
> > > > > here as well?
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks,
> > > > > julia
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know; rtl8192su & rtl8192e use a modified version of the
> > > > libipw stack, rather than the mac80211 stack found behind non-staging
> > > > drivers.
> > > 
> > > This is clearly a bug. The question is: who is maintaining this driver
> > > and why it doesn't use/extend ieee80211/libipw?
> > 
> > I maintain it, and I am working to convert it to use the existing
> > ieee80211 stack that is in the kernel.  Remember, these are drivers in
> > the staging tree, they are usually "crap" :)
> 
> When you say "ieee80211" you mean mac80211, right?

Sorry, yes, whatever the wireless stack in the main kernel is called
these days :)

thanks,

greg k-h