From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] d80211: change the cookie to be opaque Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:15:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20061103041455.GE2989@tuxdriver.com> References: <20061102223854.692274000@sipsolutions.net> <20061102230013.960383000@sipsolutions.net> <1162513367.3381.11.camel@johannes.berg> <1162514791.3381.14.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn , Michael Wu , Michael Buesch , Hong Liu Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:30991 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751059AbWKCEYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:24:45 -0500 To: Johannes Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1162514791.3381.14.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:46:31AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Ok, that one was wrong. But what is it doing in the public API? We need > > to remove it from the public API and leave struct net_device *dev as the > > parameter. adm8211 actually uses it and increases the tx_fifo_error > > counter, but that's a bit strange. > > Fixed, and since, as always, netdev doesn't like my patches, they're > here instead: > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/d80211-mdev-cleanup/ > > I also added d80211-reduce-mdev.patch which reduces stupid mdev usage, > but see the description in the patch itself. 403 Forbidden (shouldn't that be Verboten? :-) FWIW, I have the other 6 patches on the 'pending' branch of wireless-dev. Driver authors, please proceed accordingly. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com