Re: What happened to linux/802_11.h?

[James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.jf.intel.com>]

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:38:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  
>
>>Joshua Kwan <jkwan@rackable.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The IPW2100 driver
>>>(http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net) uses its definitions and now won't build
>>>against -bk or -mm kernel source.
>>>      
>>>
>>Jean, should we restore 802_11.h, or is there some alternative file which
>>that driver should be using?
>>    
>>
>
>	Well, Jeff explicitely said that we should not care about
>drivers outside the kernel ;-)
>	Seriously, I see three solutions :
>	1) Convert ipw2100 to using drivers/net/wireless/ieee802_11.h,
>extend this header as necessary
>  
>
This is the path I was planning to take when I read about 802_11.h 
possibly going away a while ago.  The file finally going away will just 
raise the priority of that effort a bit :)  Changing the code to use the 
headers in drivers/net/wireless isn't a big task -- I'll put the change 
into the next snapshot of ipw2100.

Thanks,
James
(of ipw2100.sf.net)