From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:26:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420550805.1966.30.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420532617.1966.2.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20150106_092406_190634_68A6D76E)
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 09:23 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Yours is the theoretical, hopefully-forward-looking one where we still
> expect the driver to actually be modified to take advantage of the new
> frameworks (which is independent of wext support towards userspace). In
> that scenario, yes, it should use more until it uses all, and then it
> can stop concerning itself with wext (which would be a win because
> driver/wext interaction is always finicky) (*)
I just realized that in order to actually do this you'd have to revert
04b0c5c6995103eef56391c163e970ab1f03b59f first, but that would be pretty
simple.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-06 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-03 14:59 [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT" Paul Bolle
2015-01-03 18:02 ` Marcel Holtmann
2015-01-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <CA+55aFzYSiUkntraMrHEhMzkt35Ft2p9E3cT7ejwQOBDwKvcOg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-03 22:28 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 10:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-01-05 10:20 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-05 10:14 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-05 17:38 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 18:22 ` Arend van Spriel
2015-01-05 18:57 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1420484224.9459.16.camel-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-05 22:05 ` Paul Bolle
2015-01-05 22:13 ` Arend van Spriel
[not found] ` <54AB0C75.1090204-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-06 8:19 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 8:23 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 13:26 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
[not found] ` <1420297188.2397.3.camel-IWqWACnzNjzz+pZb47iToQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-06 8:03 ` Kalle Valo
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