Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by ra.tuxdriver.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l12II8Fk007923 for ; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:18:33 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so450540pyi for ; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:18:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:18:05 +0200 From: Tomas Winkler Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211 merge In-reply-to: <1170339078.22420.3.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: wireless-bounces@tuxdriver.com To: Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wireless@lists.tuxdriver.org Errors-to: wireless-bounces@tuxdriver.com Message-id: <1ba2fa240702021018m2dda838dyb85e956e42694e72@mail.gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1050204710==" References: <20070131013717.GA28076@tuxdriver.com> <20070131183255.GB8776@tuxdriver.com> <20070131202549.5ee47bd4@griffin.suse.cz> <20070131200741.GA22448@infradead.org> <20070131204438.GB19669@tuxdriver.com> <1170277561.2236.6.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240701311554i435d28b1x6822803326138cb5@mail.gmail.com> <1170335262.17068.6.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240702010604o3cc827d6j1319579e15f28b48@mail.gmail.com> <1170339078.22420.3.camel@johannes.berg> List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Id: Linux wireless networking development --===============1050204710== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_17012_20613327.1170440285814" ------=_Part_17012_20613327.1170440285814 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Johannes I don't know who is missing something here, but what I'm saying that (1) is not correct. priv ioctls don't work with compatibility set on. In any case I'll check it again to be sure and I will apologize if I'm not correct. I definitely agree on two other points. Thanks Tomas On 2/1/07, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:04 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > Can you elaborate shortly. I'm not from time 0 on this list. > > Well. cfg80211 will replace the common wext ioctls. All the private wext > ioctls will not be handled there. > > The rationale is that > (1) it doesn't delete priv ioctls, they'll still work for the migration > period > (2) you can't rely on private ioctls having a certain meaning for each > driver, ie. other drivers are free the reassign numbers of > sub-ioctls > (3) any behaviour that is generally useful should be standardised. > > johannes > > > ------=_Part_17012_20613327.1170440285814 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Johannes
I don't know who is missing something here, but what I'm saying that (1) is not correct. priv ioctls don't work with compatibility  set on.
In any case I'll check it again to be sure and I will apologize if I'm not correct.
I definitely agree on two other  points.

Thanks
Tomas


On 2/1/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:04 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> Can you elaborate shortly.  I'm not from time 0 on this list.

Well. cfg80211 will replace the common wext ioctls. All the private wext
ioctls will not be handled there.

The rationale is that
(1) it doesn't delete priv ioctls, they'll still work for the migration
     period
(2) you can't rely on private ioctls having a certain meaning for each
     driver, ie. other drivers are free the reassign numbers of
     sub-ioctls
(3) any behaviour that is generally useful should be standardised.

johannes



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