netdev - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ieee80211_wx_{get,set}

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Message-Id: <1208796792.30994.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:53:12 -0400
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ieee80211_wx_{get,set}_auth()

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:11 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:48 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > After the bcm43xx removal ieee80211_wx_{get,set}_auth() were no longer 
> > used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> >  include/net/ieee80211.h      |    8 ---
> >  net/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c |   89 -----------------------------------
> >  2 files changed, 97 deletions(-)
> 
> Interesting. I thought those would have been in softmac, removal sounds
> fine to me but I don't use the ieee80211 stack.

The only other two users of ieee80211 are ipw2100 and ipw2200, and they
both appear to implement the SIOCxIWAUTH calls privately.  So I think
these can go to the function slaughterhouse.  If somebody wants to unify
them later it would be better to start fresh anyway.

Dan


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