Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:55:42 +0200
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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:43 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> Hello Marcel!
>=20
> > and that is just plain wrong to begin with. If you want a one command d=
o
> > everything, then do that in userspace and not inside a kernel API.
>=20
> Then why not implement deferent syscalls for floppy disks, hard disk
> drives, solid state disks and normal files? If you want one generic
> API than write an users-space library.
>=20
> Thought-out APIs sucks, MS-DOS rules!
>=20
> > >>From my point of view, WEXT can die right now. Just doing something t=
o
> > make WEXT happy is wrong. If you want something like that then do it in
> > userspace. I just don't see the need here for an extra kernel API.
>=20
> There is no concept, what should be in user-space and what not. It's
> all mixed together. Not a microkernel, no a monolithic kernel, awful.
>=20
> I'm not needed any more, so I can switching off myself. Bye.

ROFL.

Your credibility has just gone below zero.

johannes

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