Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:12986 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbZEUHR2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 03:17:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211 From: Zhu Yi To: drago01 Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Ortiz, Samuel" In-Reply-To: References: <1242872340-27417-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1242872340-27417-2-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:09:41 +0800 Message-Id: <1242889781.24825.611.camel@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:12 +0800, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Zhu Yi wrote: > > The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211. > > Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they > > are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers > > to be also benefit from these utility functions. > > Isn't lib80211 a better place for those ? > Its purpose is sharing code between fullmac and softmac drivers. These functions are moved from mac80211 which currently doesn't link with lib80211. Johannes might have more to comment. Thanks, -yi