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Message-ID: <87hcw49rg8.fsf@briny.internal.ondioline.org>
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
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