From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] WE-21 support (core API) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:51:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20060831135112.GA6097@jm.kir.nu> References: <20060830005655.GA8405@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1157031138.16040.17.camel@ux156> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, "John W. Linville" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Javier Achirica , Simon Kelley , "James P. Ketrenos" , Zhu Yi , Pavel Roskin , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jeroen Vreeken , Michael Wu , Denis Vlasenko , Michael Buesch Return-path: Received: from mail2.genealogia.fi ([194.100.116.229]:41873 "EHLO mail2.genealogia.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932321AbWHaNxD (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:53:03 -0400 To: Johannes Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1157031138.16040.17.camel@ux156> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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