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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: make ethtool the driver's responsibility

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On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, cfg80211 tries to implement ethtool, but that doesn't
> really scale well, with all the different operations. Make the
> lower-level driver responsible for it, which currently only has
> an effect on mac80211. It will similarly not scale well at that
> level though, since mac80211 also has many drivers.
> 
> To cleanly implement this in mac80211, introduce a new file and
> move some code to appropriate places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Fine by me...

Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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