Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:39918 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759240AbXHTLVQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:21:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/20] mac80211: remove unused ioctls (1) From: Johannes Berg To: Jouni Malinen Cc: John Linville , Jiri Benc , Michael Wu , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070818040423.GF1415@jm.kir.nu> References: <20070815144920.135826000@sipsolutions.net> <20070815145043.551508000@sipsolutions.net> <20070818040423.GF1415@jm.kir.nu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TUs8chl1aHMiU/Ukt9Cy" Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:10:05 +0200 Message-Id: <1187601005.6090.41.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-TUs8chl1aHMiU/Ukt9Cy Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 21:04 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > No, but some of them can be assumed to be used with iwpriv..=20 As for that, see my other mail. > First one > is useful should one be interested in WFA certifications tests.=20 That should, imho, rather live in debugfs. Somebody doing certification tests ought to be able to enable debugfs on their system. > Scan > flags can be useful in filtering out scan results in cases where there > are huge numbers of APs around.=20 Plan has it that the new cfg80211 API for scanning allows scanning for things rather than filtering the results after the fact, e.g. (like iwlist already supports) scanning for a particular SSID. I suppose hardware designs like iwlwifi could make much better use of that than mac80211 itself though. > Even if you end up removing scan_flags, you could leave these pieces of > information available in scan results. Sure, I can do that. johannes --=-TUs8chl1aHMiU/Ukt9Cy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGyVpt/ETPhpq3jKURAh1DAJ94/JjY+9D/VtmqC2wWyQWG7QZPzgCfYtPA ol7e7QPciod5qT0KEC/02+w= =uYdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TUs8chl1aHMiU/Ukt9Cy--