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Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw-mac80211: debug output for mac80211 ops

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On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2007 16:05, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > I suggest you look at bcm43xx-mac80211.
> > You will need to introduce refcounting for your monitor interfaces
> > and I _really_ suggest to get rid of the zd_op_open() and zd_op_close()
> > functions. Just include that in add/remove interface. You need
> > to refcount your interfaces anyway.
> >
> Requiring refcounting for monitor interfaces is fairly dumb since mac80211 
> does the exact same refcounting. I haven't bothered to do it in any driver 
> ports yet for this reason. This part of the mac80211 driver api needs to be 
> fixed.

I'm talking about _current_ API. And with current API you need refcounting.
If you want to change that, that's fine. But that doesn't matter here.

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