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Re: [RFC/RFT v2] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API

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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:35 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> Hello Johannes!
> 
> > Because you don't associate with an IBSS?
> 
> This is only a name, but the call does mostly the same. I think having
> one generic API goes more along with the UNIX philosophy, than having
> for each mode a defend API, on which almost only the names of the
> calls are deferent.

Huh? No, it does not mostly do the same. Quite not so. Managed and IBSS
modes are _really_ different. Almost the only thing they have in common
is that they use an SSID and a BSSID.

And an airy concept of "UNIX philosophy" really has nothing whatsoever
to do with it.

johannes

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