Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"

Paul Bolle
2015-01-05T22:05:24Z

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 19:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Multiple other groups of ioctls could be converted in similar patches,
> until at the end you can completely remove ipw_wx_handlers and rely
> entirely on cfg80211's wext compatibility.
>
> So far the theory - in practice nobody cared enough to start working on
> any of these drivers, let alone actually has the hardware today.

So my suggestion to make ipw2200 no longer use cfg80211_wext_giwname()
would actually be backwards. What's actually needed, in theory, is to
use more of what's provided under CFG80211_WEXT (and, I guess, less of
what's provided under WIRELESS_EXT). Did I get that right?

Thanks,

Paul Bolle