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From: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Javier Achirica <achirica@gmail.com>,
	Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
	"James P. Ketrenos" <ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com>,
	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu>,
	Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] WE-21 support (core API)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:51:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831135112.GA6097@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157031138.16040.17.camel@ux156>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:32:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:56 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 		o modulation
> > 		o long/short retry
> > 		o relative power saving.

> What's the point of adding more ioctls that we'll be implementing them
> as wrappers around nl80211? Right now, those new ioctls/options aren't
> implemented in *any* driver at all so they're completely useless, and
> just add more to the pile of historic baggage we end up carrying around.
> If we add these to mainline now, it's another thing we'll have to carry
> for a long time even though it currently has no users...

I don't know about the others, but long/short retry limits have users
(e.g., Host AP driver) and these drivers are currently forced to use a
hack to do this without this cleanup. Furthermore, this part does not
add a new ioctl.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30  0:56 [PATCH 2.6.18] WE-21 support (core API) Jean Tourrilhes
2006-08-31 13:32 ` Johannes Berg
2006-08-31 13:51   ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2006-08-31 14:00     ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-06 20:55       ` [RFC] Alternate " John W. Linville
2006-09-06 21:09         ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-06 21:30         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-08 14:29           ` John W. Linville
2006-09-08 16:13             ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-08 20:04               ` John W. Linville
2006-09-11  9:08               ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]                 ` <20060911162608.GA31459@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
     [not found]                   ` <1158050637.2854.16.camel@ux156>
2006-09-12 16:17                     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-13  6:17                       ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-06 21:43         ` Larry Finger
2006-09-07  6:42         ` Johannes Berg
2006-08-31 17:12   ` [PATCH 2.6.18] " Jean Tourrilhes
2006-08-31 17:57     ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-01  6:56       ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-01  6:54     ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-01 16:35       ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-01 18:55         ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-01 22:10           ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-02  0:47             ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-04  8:17               ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-04  8:35             ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-04 14:13               ` Stuffed Crust
2006-09-05 17:06               ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-01 22:27           ` Ulrich Kunitz

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