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On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 10:10 +0100, Dmitry Tarnyagin wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> >> Correct. But I would move it to drivers/net/wireless during submission.
> >
> > A word of caution: don't attempt that in its current state.
> >
> Thank you for caution. CONFIG_CW1200_USE_STE_EXTENSIONS,
> CONFIG_WAKELOCK and HAS_PUT_TASK_STRUCT will be removed
> of course, API will be aligned with 3.1. But I'm a bit curious what else could
> prevent from submission to drivers/net/wireless? I do not see obvious problems
> with code. Could you please give a short advise what should be fixed then if you
> see problems?

Well there is a ton of stuff like compat code too. Also, for example the
worker thread is pretty strange -- kthread_create() is essentially
deprecated, and having a thread to handle interrupts is weird to start
with.

johannes

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