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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:48:39 +1300 From: Paul Collins <paul@...ny.ondioline.org> To: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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