netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove driver using deprecated API wext

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Message-ID: <edc31a6341e810e23c342f1e90776a3e764c4924.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:06:00 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Philipp Hortmann	
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	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Stefan
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove
 driver using deprecated API wext

On Sat, 2025-01-04 at 05:15 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> I would assume that once removing CFG80211_WEXT becomes an option, we
> can just put the remaining parts of net/wireless/wext-*.c into both
> ps3_gelic and ipw2x00, duplicating and then simplifying the
> implementation. As far as I can tell, there is very little that is
> actually shared between the two anyway.

Indeed.

Note that net/wireless/wext-{core,proc,priv}.c are not even related to
CFG80211_WEXT (wext-{compat,sme}.c are), and just form the core wext
code that can be treated completely orthogonal and independent of
cfg80211. This driver doesn't even use CFG80211_WEXT code at all.

johannes