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Re: [RFC] make ieee80211 invisible

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On Tuesday 14 October 2008 19:49:22 Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> This makes CONFIG_IEEE80211 invisible. The drivers that require it
> (ipw2100, ipw2200, hostap) select it, and everybody else really
> shouldn't even think about using it. Also, since there really is
> no point in compiling anything without crypto support these days,
> remove the crypto options and just enable them, leaving only the
> debugging option which only shows up when a driver is select that
> requires it. This makes it hard to enable, but most people wouldn't
> want to anyway.

I think in the long term we should also rename it to ipw-ieee80211
and move it into another directory like drivers/net/wireless/ipw-ieee80211.
This way it's a lot less confusing for new developers joining the wireless developers.

(Probably also rename the symbols. I'm not sure if it's worth it, however)

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Greetings Michael.
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