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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>,
	libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/wireless/libertas: do not call wiphy_unregister() w/o wiphy_register()
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:03:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408190358.GB2999@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100330172008.GD13120@tuxdriver.com>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:20:08PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:04:33AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 12:59 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > I asked if there is a better method, and you said that you would test a better 
> > > solution. That means that someone else should make a better solution.
> > > 
> > > I just pointed out that I won't be the one who creates the better solution, 
> > > because for fundamental reasons I don't see the libertas+cfg80211 approach 
> > > going forward. That issue has nothing to do with you or your patch, so please 
> > > don't feel offended or confused.
> > 
> > Fine; just rip out the mesh code and do the vanilla cfg80211 conversion
> > for infra & adhoc, and we'll add the mesh code back later.  I don't have
> > time to do the cfg80211 bits, neither do the OLPC guys (AFAIK), so lets
> > take advantage of your willingness to do this and just move the driver
> > forward.
> 
> Someone post a feature removal patch, please?

Ping?

-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 15:14 [PATCH] net/wireless/libertas: do not call wiphy_unregister() w/o wiphy_register() Daniel Mack
2010-03-29 15:14 ` Daniel Mack
2010-03-30  6:49 ` Holger Schurig
2010-03-30  8:52   ` Daniel Mack
2010-03-30  9:49     ` Holger Schurig
2010-03-30 10:50       ` Daniel Mack
2010-03-30 10:59         ` Holger Schurig
2010-03-30 17:04           ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 17:04             ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 17:20             ` John W. Linville
2010-04-08 19:03               ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-04-09 13:51                 ` Holger Schurig

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