From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from buzzloop.caiaq.de ([212.112.241.133]:45137 "EHLO buzzloop.caiaq.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755238Ab0C3Kuy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:50:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:50:29 +0200 From: Daniel Mack To: Holger Schurig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , "John W. Linville" , Bing Zhao , libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/wireless/libertas: do not call wiphy_unregister() w/o wiphy_register() Message-ID: <20100330105029.GO30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> References: <1269875658-3324-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> <201003300849.07441.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> <20100330085253.GL30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <201003301149.13462.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <201003301149.13462.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:49:13AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > > If there's any better solution, I'd happily test it. > > Not from me, unfortunately. I'm not really interested into getting full > cfg80211 into Libertas. That is, until either _one_ of this two options > happen: > > * someone that actually uses/wants the proprietary Libertas mesh steps > forward and says "We'll look after this and make it work with cfg80211" > * we remove the proprietary Libertas mesh support > > That is: I won't work on Libertas mesh. I can't justify this time investment > with my employer for something that I'll never need. For my device, my own > version of Libertas + cfg80211 (without any WEXT anymore) works quite nice. > > > So, if neither of the above things happens, then Libertas will work for the > rest of the world with WEXT, as it did before. I don't get your point. The patch I submitted fixes an Ooops in the driver, due to wrong handling of an API. What does that have to do with principle discussions about the frameworks in use? Daniel