From: Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:48:39 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcw49rg8.fsf@briny.internal.ondioline.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061209160640.GA3365@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message of "Sat\, 9 Dec 2006 11\:06\:46 -0500")
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 03:48:43AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Somebody please mark CONFIG_CFG80211 in wireless-dev.git as
>> experimental/broken/incomplete/whatever. Not only doesn't it work, but
>> it also breaks Wireless Extensions if enabled, even if CONFIG_D80211 is
>> disabled.
>>
>> Driver developers should know that if they enable CONFIG_CFG80211 they
>> won't be able to debug their drivers effectifely; they'll have to fix
>> cfg80211 first.
>
> Perhaps you could be more specific? I'm sending this to you from a
> box booted on the current (~1 week old) wireless-dev kernel using a
> WEXT-configured ipw2200 device.
>
> What problems are you experiencing? CFG80211 shouldn't interfere w/
> WEXT if a driver doesn't support it.
I think I hit this too when I started playing with wireless-dev a week
or so ago. I had CFG80211 enabled and iwconfig reported "wireless
extensions not supported" with orinoco, bcm43xx and bcm43xx-d80211.
--
Paul Collins
Wellington, New Zealand
Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-10 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-09 8:48 Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable Pavel Roskin
2006-12-09 16:06 ` John W. Linville
2006-12-10 6:48 ` Paul Collins [this message]
2006-12-10 8:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-12-10 13:17 ` Johannes Berg
2006-12-10 16:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-12-10 16:21 ` [PATCH] fix cfg80211 WE compat code Johannes Berg
2006-12-22 2:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-12-22 5:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-12-22 11:04 ` Johannes Berg
2006-12-10 13:27 ` Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable Michael Buesch
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