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Re: [PATCH 9/9] net_device: dont include wext bits if not required

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On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:53 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> 	I personally would not do that. Having conditional fields in
> "struct net_device" is very bad, it's a sure way to crash on modules
> in some cases. If I remember well, Jeff Garzik has been fighting those
> over the years.

I'm fine with posting a patch the other way around (i.e. removing the
conditional from wireless-dev) just wanted to float this. It originally
made much more sense anyway when I had wanted to do cfg80211/wext
compatibility in a different way. Now it looks like it'll just depend on
wext.

johannes

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