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Re: [PATCH 09/10] cfg80211: pending config

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:10 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> This has _got_ to be defined somewhere else in the stack?  Can we use
> that define, or is it being moved to here?  Seems a shame to have it
> more than one place.

It probably is...

> On a side note, many many drivers need something like this, and many
> many drivers redefine it internally.  Is there some header that all
> drivers (even fullmac like airo, orinoco, atmel, and libertas) can get
> this from?

Yeah, we should have some sort of stack/driver agnosting IEEE 802.11
defines header w/o functions in it. Then I'd use that here too.


> > - * NB3: It's really bad that we can't report an error from the timer-
> > + * NB2: It's really bad that we can't report an error from the timer-
> >   * based commit... Hopefully get_config_valid() can catch everything?
> 
> Well, we'd have two choices; first, a netlink notification that the
> config was unsuccessful, or second a WEXT SIOCSIWAP event of
> 00:00:00:xxx for WE compat.  Why wouldn't one of those work?

Yes, we can give a notification that it was unsuccessful. For wext, we
don't actually need all this I think because we do it with commit
anyway.

johannes

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