netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "ipw2200: select CFG80211

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Message-ID: <1420495519.14308.29.camel@x220>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:05:19 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	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 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?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

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