Re: [PATCH dscape] d80211: Switch d80211.h to IEEE80211_ style names

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:56:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Michael Wu wrote:
> > On Monday 31 July 2006 13:31, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > As usual I'll depend on Jiri to merge d80211 stack patches, then
> > > send me a pull request.  If I apply your "Switch drivers to d80211"
> > > series now, that will undoutedly cause a breakage when Jiri asks me
> > > to pull this later.
> > >
> > Yeah, there needs to be a new (and smaller) set of patches to switch drivers 
> > to the d80211.h header.
> 
> NACK again.  Driver should continue to use the ieee80211.h header forever.

I don't anticipate the d80211 naming conventions to ever make it out
of wireless-dev.  By the time we are ready to push that stuff upstream,
we will have cleaned-up our messes.

This does raise the question: Should we start taking patches to
wireless-dev that migrate the current (i.e. ieee80211/softmac) stack
out of the kernel?  This would include (re-)moving the current stack
code, pointing non-migrated drivers (ipw2[12]00, zd1211rw) at the old
code, moving drivers out of drivers/net/wireless/d80211 up a level,
removing the softmac-based version of the bcm43xx driver, etc.

Are we ready for this?  Who wants to be the wireless janitor?

Whether Michael's patches come before or after this clean-up
really doesn't matter.  I'd probably rather have them now.  It only
complicates the migration slightly, while accomplishing something
useful.

John
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John W. Linville
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