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Re: [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211

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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:09 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> > > Isn't lib80211 a better place for those ?
> > > Its purpose is sharing code between fullmac and softmac drivers.
> > 
> > These functions are moved from mac80211 which currently doesn't link
> > with lib80211. Johannes might have more to comment.
> 
> Yeah, lib80211's stated purpose is to share code, but on the other hand
> code that mac80211 and fullmac drivers may need seems better suited in
> cfg80211 since lib80211 also ships a large code bit of crypto routines
> etc. that are just useless for this and mac80211.

The crypto stuff is mostly in separate modules.

I would rather see these in lib80211, but I'll work that out myself.

John
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