Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:55587 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752220AbZJWQEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:04:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] [RFC, v2] libertas: Kconfig entry for libertas+cfg80211 From: Johannes Berg To: Dan Williams Cc: Holger Schurig , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville In-Reply-To: <1256312995.2164.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20091022133043.185554096@mail.mn-solutions.de> <20091022133425.317619132@mail.mn-solutions.de> <1256307572.12174.33.camel@johannes.local> <1256312995.2164.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jDkRkB8blio9Nw0+lEUf" Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:04:11 +0200 Message-Id: <1256313851.12174.131.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-jDkRkB8blio9Nw0+lEUf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 08:49 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > - (iw_handler) lbs_set_freq, /* SIOCSIWFREQ */ > > + (iw_handler) cfg80211_wext_siwfreq, > >=20 > > etc. > >=20 > > That's why those exist and are exported. And that way you don't need th= e > > Kconfig at all, and can remove most of the wext code. >=20 > I *think* because Holger is trying to keep WEXT around for a bit, > because cfg80211 won't be mature enough yet (IMHO, I could be wrong) by > 2.6.33, and because it doesn't support the OLPC-style mesh stuff and the > libertas monitor interface code. There's a few loose-ends that need to > be tied up before a cfg80211 conversion would completely replace the > functionality of the WEXT code. I just don't understand why he thinks that wext and cfg80211 need to be mutually exclusive. cfg80211 has exported its handlers for exactly this purpose, so that you could have everything that cfg80211 supports via it, and everything else directly. johannes --=-jDkRkB8blio9Nw0+lEUf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJK4dP0AAoJEODzc/N7+QmaISQQAJ4JFQarYh1h6977sR+p5HLW +7283XR+xh5lOqd61W8eNBkS79H10sAA/6IUguuJ4yA0aDs6lEYJvv7Ai4fuVhfk jLLrEDCo62BGJ/I7I+CdZoCI2v8O5lRiHTucZamPAg4l4PGMP+qtxB8Qer0WxEyq t/fL2yIVDYAIzLHb1B6G631+OCYGdTb2iJJ0wvc9bPdfvb9q5dS0/Fg0xGqI2gtS hZtlCeR8HSRfWz6VyPbelG2F7h2Naw9PRviMew7pHVhXliEAJ5Y/QFHSjwCGaJkc gbF1UMQOrM+O5hShynNJXAwBB0rbMjrk4l3hxLB8wY678GKpA6AG5ejHssSiMvzC STw3NbgwCo3YQD0ca/EEGJM3/oBhtirsJ7iuApGHGJboilSMKwtEQWbrHplyJ5Js 5DV8XJba3s4YixL9lD5v5UhPYLc6ZWw+IaeacUoZRXa/uoKrKID7Jy+5PU+exFfr sLZgxJ1cCUshVCp4vRSEKnD6yIgONy1uWNPuX1Jbqp2lT+Y/RHcwxfqFef4kqohV HYrVVO/IyRf+a0nDARAiEhUnySoqPyzQwu4KwZFjDnmDMBt1MfRDHAPLtPGt/PQT qs71aTVNzlkWnjF83nrcYwPu96WKj7MX+lHlIz5lCuNeTZwY7tlUZ4sIUohTpJS2 B4D72wx3Nwb0+PJWlgEZ =P7kJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jDkRkB8blio9Nw0+lEUf--