Johannes
I don't know who is missing something here, but what I'm saying that (1) is
not correct. priv ioctls don't work with compatibility  set on.
In any case I'll check it again to be sure and I will apologize if I'm not
correct.
I definitely agree on two other  points.

Thanks
Tomas


On 2/1/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:04 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > Can you elaborate shortly.  I'm not from time 0 on this list.
>
> Well. cfg80211 will replace the common wext ioctls. All the private wext
> ioctls will not be handled there.
>
> The rationale is that
> (1) it doesn't delete priv ioctls, they'll still work for the migration
>      period
> (2) you can't rely on private ioctls having a certain meaning for each
>      driver, ie. other drivers are free the reassign numbers of
>      sub-ioctls
> (3) any behaviour that is generally useful should be standardised.
>
> johannes
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