Return-path: Received: from mail.suse.cz (styx.suse.cz [82.119.242.94]) by ra.tuxdriver.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l0VJPqlN007688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:26:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:25:49 +0100 From: Jiri Benc To: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211 merge Message-ID: <20070131202549.5ee47bd4@griffin.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070131183255.GB8776@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <20070131024807.GA7061@jm.kir.nu> <20070131182908.13bfc374@griffin.suse.cz> <20070131183255.GB8776@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: wireless@lists.tuxdriver.org List-Id: Linux wireless networking development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: wireless-bounces@tuxdriver.com Errors-To: wireless-bounces@tuxdriver.com On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:55 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > OK, where were you guys in London? I don't recall any disagreement > there? Hm, I remember we agreed that merging of d80211 and cfg80211/nl80211 are two separate things. And a discussion about cfg80211/nl80211 not being quite ready yet (if I remember correctly, Jouni participated in that discussion). But well, it was just informal and maybe I missed something else. > The WEXT compat code should be enough to drive the cfg80211 code. > And we would mark it CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (which I left out of the > patch) for now. I suppose we could leave-out the nl80211 part to > avoid userland lock-in for now? Yes, that could solve that I think. > This also has the advantage of including the ieee80211_ptr in the > net_device structure, hopefully easing the task of packaging the rest > of the stack for external builds. Definitely. > I suppose we could wait for at least one driver to be cfg80211-capable. > Would that satisfy everyone? If cfg80211-capable means also WPA-capable and if nl80211 is left out until user space counterpart exists, yes, I'm okay with that. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ wireless mailing list wireless@lists.tuxdriver.org http://lists.tuxdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless