From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <me@bobcopeland.com>,
<mickflemm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:46:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD612CA.1050604@qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339425944.4520.27.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 06/11/2012 05:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:40 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> I would compare this with NL80211_TESTMODE, we don't want distributions
>> to enable that either. Of course nothing prevents distros to enable
>> CFG80211_EXPERT but we need to be active to make sure it's not enabled
>> (ie. check the distro configs and file bugs etc).
>
> Right, but that's actually a feature. I see little value in a pretty
> much meaningless "EXPERT wireless" Kconfig symbol that only groups
> others.
Ah, I see.
> If, as Arend suggested, it actually has some meaning, then it
> may make more sense.
Yeah, I see your point.
FWIW I do see the value with CFG80211_EXPERT as it makes more difficult
for users to accidentally enable certain features. And it makes it
easier for us to search for distros which have CFG80211_EXPERT enabled.
Kalle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-09 0:51 [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 1/3] cfg80211: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 2/3] ath5k: replace modparam_all_channels with CONFIG_ATH5K_TEST_CHANNELS Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 0:51 ` [RFC 3/3] ath9k: make CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED depend on CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-09 7:55 ` [RFC 0/3] wireless: add CONFIG_CFG80211_EXPERT Johannes Berg
2012-06-09 19:51 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-11 7:32 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 14:40 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-11 14:45 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-11 15:46 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2012-06-14 19:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-15 8:16 ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-15 8:21 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 11:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-15 16:09 ` Kalle Valo
2012-06-15 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-06-16 12:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-06-18 15:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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