netdev - Re: Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable

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Message-ID: <20061210110802.kq50mvc4s00s0skw@webmail.spamcop.net>
Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:08:02 -0500
From:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Paul Collins <paul@...ny.ondioline.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please make CONFIG_CFG80211 harder to enable

Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>:

> On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 03:12 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > Yes.  And I could trace "iwgetid -m ath0" to cfg80211_wx_get_mode() in
> > net/wireless/wext-compat.c, which returns -ENOSYS unconditionally.  ath0 is
> > from current MadWifi.
>
> Now trace it further and notice that on -ENOSYS the original WE is
> invoked.

Not quite.  cfg80211_wext_ioctl() returns -ENODEV (no idea why), but the code
only falls back to Wireless Extensions if the return code is -ENOSYS.  That
should be quite easy to fix.

--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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