Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:07:41 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211 merge
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> 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.

Yes, cfg80211 should go in first so we can use it to avoid all the
boilerplate code in existing and new drivers.  Once we have netlink-capable
userspace nl80211 can be added ontop of that.  This also allows for
possibly needed adjustments of the nl interface when writing the
tools actually using it.

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