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
next prev parent 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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