linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211

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Message-ID: <54AB0C75.1090204@broadcom.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:13:09 +0100
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	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 01/05/15 23:05, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 19:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> Multiple other groups of ioctls could be converted in similar patches,
>> until at the end you can completely remove ipw_wx_handlers and rely
>> entirely on cfg80211's wext compatibility.
>>
>> So far the theory - in practice nobody cared enough to start working on
>> any of these drivers, let alone actually has the hardware today.
>
> So my suggestion to make ipw2200 no longer use cfg80211_wext_giwname()
> would actually be backwards. What's actually needed, in theory, is to
> use more of what's provided under CFG80211_WEXT (and, I guess, less of
> what's provided under WIRELESS_EXT). Did I get that right?

Yes, but as Johannes indicated it needs consideration what to group in 
the patches.

Regards,
Arend

> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>

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