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Subject: Re: Converting ipw2x00 driver to mac80211 framework
From: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Hi Johannes,

>> What do you think is the best way of converting the ipw2x00 driver to
>> the mac80211 framework?
>
> TBH, I'm not even sure it is a good idea to do that. ?Given that the
> driver is quite old, nobody really knows how the hardware works any
> more, it likely has quite a different operating model from mac80211, I
> wouldn't recommend attempting this. I'm not even sure it is possible at
> all.
>
> It would be much less risky to convert the entire thing to cfg80211, I
> think, basically just replacing the configuration layer in libipw_wx.c
> with a cfg80211 based one.

Thanks for directions, I will take a look.

Stanislav.