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Re: [PATCH 3/3] mac80211: remove management interface

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On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:44 -0700, Michael Wu wrote:
> > On Monday 13 August 2007 00:45, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > Oh and somebody needs to fix zd1211rw-mac80211. It abused the
> > > MGMT interface constant that was explicitly mentioned to be
> > > not for drivers... I've "fixed" it for now but readers of the
> > > code may not be happy with it.
> 
> > I've done this in all my drivers. It's perfectly fine. If you're going to drop 
> > the MGMT enum, please post a patch to s/IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MGMT/-1/ for all 
> > drivers.
> 
> Oh, I thought zd1211 was the only one doing that. I could add a
> IF_TYPE_INVALID if you really require that, but I don't see the point.
> As soon as the driver wants to work with multiple interfaces this stuff
> has to go anyway.

Also rt2x00 was using IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MGMT as value to indicate no
interface has been configured. So if you are going to run
s/IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MGMT/-1/ please include rt2x00.h in that run too.

Thanks :)

Ivo
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