Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging/rtl8xxx: delete ieee80211 constant duplication

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 04/27/2015 12:25 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> While looking at a non-staging wifi driver, I was searching for a constant
> definition for an error code, and in addition to the expected one living
> in the main include dir, I found a whole bunch of local copies in the
> staging dir rtl8xxx wifi drivers.  This duplication covers the families
> of WLAN_STATUS_<text> and WLAN_REASON_<text> values.
>
> While one can understand that these things were wholesale copied at one
> point to simplify out of tree building, we don't want duplicated stuff
> for drivers that are in tree.  Even if they are in staging, they will
> need cleanups like this if they ever want to get out of staging.
>
> Some could be removed and trivially replaced with the associated include
> of <linux/ieee80211.h> but for a couple of others a couple of struct
> fields had to be renamed to align with the main include first, and a
> struct namespace collision between the main include and the local ones
> had to be resolved to allow the duplicate constant removal as well.
>
> Compile tested only, but the changes seem trivial enough so as to be
> presumably zero runtime impact (famous last words....)

These drivers do not use mac80211, which is a prerequisite for inclusion in the 
regular wifi tree. A complete rewrite will be needed to get them out of staging. 
Nonetheless, cleanups are in order.

The patches against rtl8188eu and rtl8712 are certainly OK. The patches against 
rtl8192u are not so easily seen to be correct. In addition, I do not have this 
hardware and I cannot test. In fact, I wonder if anyone is using this particular 
hardware.

With the above qualification,
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Thanks,

Larry

>
> ---
>
> Paul Gortmaker (8):
>    rtl8188eu: don't duplicate ieee80211 constants for status/reason
>    rtl8712: don't duplicate ieee80211 constants for status/reason
>    rtl8192u: don't trample on <linux/ieee80211.h> struct namespace
>    rtl8192u: promote auth_mode to a full 8 bits
>    rtl8192u: align local ieee80211_wmm_ac_param struct fields with global
>    rtl8192u: don't duplicate ieee80211 constants for status/auth/reason
>    rtl8192u: delete another embedded instance of generic reason codes
>    rtl8192e: delete local copy of iee80211 reason codes.
>
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c            |   2 +
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c      |  10 +-
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c          |   2 +
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/ieee80211.h      |  29 +---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/wifi.h           |  77 ----------
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c     |   2 +
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c       |   3 +-
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h                  |  39 -----
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c          |   3 +-
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h     | 171 +++------------------
>   .../rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c      |  10 +-
>   .../rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c      |  26 ++--
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c  |  76 ++++-----
>   .../staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c |  32 ++--
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c  |  14 +-
>   .../staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_BAProc.c    |  48 +++---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c             |  12 +-
>   drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h                |  29 ----
>   18 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 435 deletions(-)
>