Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:39391 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893AbYIKIbU (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:31:20 -0400 From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <18632.55008.411078.289830@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20080911_103124_770055_BB6CEFD1) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:59:20 +0530 To: Johannes Berg CC: John Linville , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH 00/18] mac80211 cleanups and fixes In-Reply-To: <20080910220145.707263000@sipsolutions.net> References: <20080910220145.707263000@sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > Here's another series to clean up a bit including a few things that > I've been meaning to do for a long time: > > * mac80211: move ieee80211_set_freq to utils > * mac80211: make bridge_packets a virtual interface option > * mac80211: clean up some comments > * mac80211: inform driver of basic rateset > * mac80211: use nl80211 interface types > > I'd been talking with Sujith about this one: > > * mac80211: share STA information with driver > > and decided to just do it; as it stands it's not very useful > but I expect it to be used soon, if not we can remove the > EXPORT_SYMBOL again. > This would be very useful for ath9k. Making use of the private area for each STA can enable removal of the node list that is maintained currently. Sujith