On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:13 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 01/05/15 23:05, Paul Bolle wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 19:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> Multiple other groups of ioctls could be converted in similar patches, > >> until at the end you can completely remove ipw_wx_handlers and rely > >> entirely on cfg80211's wext compatibility. > >> > >> So far the theory - in practice nobody cared enough to start working on > >> any of these drivers, let alone actually has the hardware today. > > > > So my suggestion to make ipw2200 no longer use cfg80211_wext_giwname() > > would actually be backwards. What's actually needed, in theory, is to > > use more of what's provided under CFG80211_WEXT (and, I guess, less of > > what's provided under WIRELESS_EXT). Did I get that right? > > Yes, but as Johannes indicated it needs consideration what to group in > the patches. Oh, that's not strictly necessary - that was just so it would actually work after each single patch. If you wanted to, you could do it all in a single huge patch as well :-) I was explaining though why we did the cfg80211-wext code the way it is - which enables making smaller changes that don't break the driver. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
