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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: remove enum ieee80211_band

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On 12-04-16 21:58, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 21:53 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>
>> On 12-04-16 15:58, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> This enum is already perfectly aliased to enum nl80211_band, and
>>> the only reason for it is that we get IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS out of
>>> it. There's no really good reason to not declare the number of
>>> bands in nl80211 though, so do that and remove the cfg80211 one.
>> So what if a band is added. That would change the value of
>> IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS in nl80211. Is it not ABI?
> 
> Well, it can't be ABI really since the value is never used. Arguably it
> becomes API, but clearly we have the same with NL80211_CMD_MAX and many
> others like it, so I see no point in treating the bands here specially.
> I even added a comment :)

Ah. Clearly I only read the commit message :-p Sorry for the noise.

Gr. AvS

> johannes
> 
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