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Re: [PATCH 2.6] libertas : fix a few wext abuses...

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:28:12PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:46 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > 	By the way, from my glancing at the driver, the Libertas
> > driver do select CONFIG_IEEE80211, and then doesn't use it ? It seems
> > to force loading a modules that is not needed.
> 
> It does for ieee80211_escape_essid, actually.

	I missed that one. That does not seem essential.

>  Sucks to have to load in
> the whole module just for that, but it's only 50k

	Only 57k ? The orinoco driver itself is less than that, and
you'll find many other wireless driver way smaller than that ! I can
see that you guys are totally unconcerned about bloat.

> and eventually we'll
> still need to load to lib80211 which should eventually have this sort of
> thing.

	You means this sort of bloat ?

> Dan

	Have fun...

	Jean
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