Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:46709 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750757AbZEUHMR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 03:12:17 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so852399fxm.37 for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 00:12:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1242872340-27417-2-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> References: <1242872340-27417-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1242872340-27417-2-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 09:12:17 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211 From: drago01 To: Zhu Yi Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.