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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: use nl80211_* enums

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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:33 +0200, David Lamparter wrote:

> That's not possible because nl80211_{iftype,phymode} are userspace API.
> If they were defined in cfg80211.h, nl80211.h would need to at least mirror
> them. And since nl80211.h can't include cfg80211.h (since the former is a
> "public" header supposed to go to /usr/include with some linux-headers-*
> package), this way around is the simplest and cleanest solution.
> 
> Anyway, I don't really think including a header to be a "dependency". You
> can disable the nl80211 implementation and still use the API enum just
> fine. (Note that nl80211.h contains enums, more enums and ONLY enums :)

Good explanation, I was just going to write the same :)
Michael, pulling in nl80211.h is the only sensible thing to do unless
you want to duplicate a bunch of things and translate them in nl80211.c

johannes

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