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Re: [PATCH 17/19] [RFC, v2] libertas: Kconfig entry for libertas+cfg80211

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On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:52 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> > > Yeah, I think it's best to handle the mesh WEXT ioctls separately for
> > > now.  There are really only 4 of them (get/set SSID, set channel, get
> > > mode) that matter for mesh.  The rest of the ioctls that the mesh
> > > interface supports get redirected to the cfg80211 handlers because they
> > > aren't specific to mesh.
> > 
> > So why can't we simply do
> > 
> > set_ssid()
> > {
> > 	if (mesh)
> > 		return mesh_set_ssid();
> > 	else
> > 		return cfg80211_wext_iwessid()
> > }
> 
> The mesh interface is a completely separate netdev, with its own WEXT
> handler struct.  So we'd never be in that situation.

Ah right. Yes then it makes sense to just remove all the non-mesh WEXT
stuff.

johannes

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