Return-path: Received: from mx51.mymxserver.com ([85.199.173.110]:2984 "EHLO mx51.mymxserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752377AbZJWP5M (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:12 -0400 From: Holger Schurig To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] [RFC, v2] libertas: Kconfig entry for libertas+cfg80211 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:56:47 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville , Dan Williams References: <20091022133043.185554096@mail.mn-solutions.de> <20091022133425.317619132@mail.mn-solutions.de> <1256307572.12174.33.camel@johannes.local> In-Reply-To: <1256307572.12174.33.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200910231756.47472.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 23 October 2009 16:19:31 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:31 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_LIBERTAS_WEXT > > dev->ethtool_ops = &lbs_ethtool_ops; > > dev->wireless_handlers = &lbs_handler_def; > > #endif > > So here you make the wireless_handlers optional. > > I still don't understand why you can't just replace only some of the > handlers, i.e. instead of doing this, simply do > > - (iw_handler) lbs_set_freq, /* SIOCSIWFREQ */ > + (iw_handler) cfg80211_wext_siwfreq, > > etc. > > That's why those exist and are exported. And that way you don't > need the Kconfig at all, and can remove most of the wext code. The Kconfig has *NOTHING* to do with mesh. MESH should be implemented via add_virtual_intf() / change_virtual_intf(). This code isn't there yet, mesh_dev is always NULL in the CONFIG_LIBERTAS_CFG80211 case, so there's no need to export anything to ethtool or WEXT. And having cfg80211 + (mesh_dev != NULL) is something that I cannot program, due to (sigh) missing hardware, time, testing ability. Repeat rinse wash, repeat rinse wash ... Okay, I now stop talking about this. Please talk with Dan about the matter. He knows cfg80211 and libertas probably better than I. Once you two have found a decision, I'm looking if I'm still interested. -- http://www.holgerschurig.de