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Re: [PATCH 1/5] compat-wireless: rename {free,alloc}_ieee80211 to {free,alloc}_libipw

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> {free,alloc}_ieee80211 are also defined by ieee80211 module for example
> used on kernel 2.6.26. Without this patch ipwlib will not load on this
> kernel, because of a duplicate symbol.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>

I believe this should be done upstream for 2.6.35 as well - this
"_ieee80211" is not a reference to the name of  the IEEE 802.11
specification, but rather to the old name of libipw - "ieee80211";
this was somehow missed during the libipw rename.

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