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

> 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.

johannes