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Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 07:44:24 +0200
From:   Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@...il.com>
Cc:     Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
        Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wfx: use container_of() to get vif

Greg,

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 06:45:52 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 11:23:49PM -0400, Jaehee Park wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > @@ -61,7 +63,6 @@ struct wfx_dev {
> >  
> >  struct wfx_vif {
> >  	struct wfx_dev             *wdev;
> > -	struct ieee80211_vif       *vif;  
> 
> You need to test this on real hardware.  For an outreachy-first-task,
> this is not a good one at all.

We discussed about this on the outreachy list, and I suggested, as
Jaehee also mentioned, that maybe somebody (Jérôme?) with the hardware
could give it a try.

It looks a bit difficult but it also looks almost correctly done now. :)

> Also this code is no longer in drivers/staging/  Please work on the
> netdev mailing list as I can not take these changes anymore.

Yeah, missed by a couple of days...

Jaehee, the list is actually linux-wireless for this one:
	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/mailinglists

And the tree (my bad for mentioning net-next earlier) is actually
wireless-next:
	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/

-- 
Stefano