From: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] [RFC, v2] libertas: Kconfig entry for libertas+cfg80211
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:59:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910260859.39002.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256316179.2164.53.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> > Well if you want to push the mesh wext bits through to cfg80211
> > (temporarily) you wouldn't even need to depend on WEXT. I'd prefer,
> > however, to not do this, and just use the cfg80211 wext handlers in
> > libertas and depend on WEXT for now.
>
> Yeah, I think it's best to handle the mesh WEXT ioctls separately for
> now. There are really only 4 of them (get/set SSID, set channel, get
> mode) that matter for mesh. The rest of the ioctls that the mesh
> interface supports get redirected to the cfg80211 handlers because they
> aren't specific to mesh.
We can reduce this to 3, because get/set channel could
simply go via cfg80211.
I'm unsure if we still need an GIWRANGE for mesh, but probably not.
Dan, you once said that you converted the MESH firmware
calls to new style commands. Do you have those around? Maybe
I can re-work them if they don't apply anymore.
--
http://www.holgerschurig.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 13:30 [PATCH 00/19] libertas + cfg80211 Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 01/19] libertas spi: fix sparse errors Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 02/19] libertas: remove unused 11d code Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 03/19] libertas: remove unused 11d.h as well, priv->countryinfo Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 04/19] libertas: change IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE -> IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 05/19] libertas: move scan/assoc related stuff Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 06/19] libertas: sort variables in struct lbs_private Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 07/19] libertas: get current channel out of priv->curbssparams Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 08/19] [v2] libertas: move association related commands into assoc.c Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 09/19] libertas: move lbs_send_iwevcustom_event() to wext.c Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 10/19] libertas: remove handling for CMD_802_11_LED_GPIO_CTRL Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 11/19] libertas: remove handling for CMD_GET_TSF Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 12/19] libertas: remove "struct cmd_ds_gen" Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 13/19] libertas: move SIOCGIWAP calls to wext.c Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 14/19] libertas: move mic failure event " Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 15/19] libertas: sort and categorize entries in decl.h Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:30 ` [PATCH 16/19] libertas: remove some references to IW_MODE_abc Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:31 ` [PATCH 17/19] [RFC, v2] libertas: Kconfig entry for libertas+cfg80211 Holger Schurig
2009-10-23 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-23 15:49 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-23 16:04 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-23 16:28 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-23 16:31 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-23 16:39 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-23 16:42 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-23 16:48 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-23 16:52 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-23 17:04 ` Johannes Berg
2009-10-26 7:59 ` Holger Schurig [this message]
2009-10-26 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2009-12-15 14:44 ` Holger Schurig
2009-12-15 14:52 ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-15 15:06 ` Holger Schurig
2009-12-15 15:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-15 14:58 ` Holger Schurig
2009-12-16 16:51 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-26 7:55 ` Holger Schurig
2009-10-23 15:56 ` Holger Schurig
2009-10-23 16:30 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-25 3:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-26 8:04 ` Holger Schurig
2009-10-26 20:16 ` Dan Williams
2009-10-22 13:31 ` [PATCH 18/19] [RFC, v3] libertas: cfg80211 support Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:31 ` [PATCH 19/19] [RFC] libertas: add monitor mode to cfg80211 Holger Schurig
2009-10-22 13:36 ` [PATCH 00/19] libertas + cfg80211 Holger Schurig
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