netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211

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Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:26:45 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@...il.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211_WEXT"

On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 09:23 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Yours is the theoretical, hopefully-forward-looking one where we still
> expect the driver to actually be modified to take advantage of the new
> frameworks (which is independent of wext support towards userspace). In
> that scenario, yes, it should use more until it uses all, and then it
> can stop concerning itself with wext (which would be a win because
> driver/wext interaction is always finicky) (*)

I just realized that in order to actually do this you'd have to revert
04b0c5c6995103eef56391c163e970ab1f03b59f first, but that would be pretty
simple.

johannes

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