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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: wireless@lists.tuxdriver.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cfg80211 merge
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131183255.GB8776@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070131182908.13bfc374@griffin.suse.cz>

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:29:08PM +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:48:07 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > I'm all for getting this into the mainline kernel as soon as possible,
> > but I do not think that this should happen before there are user space
> > programs that demonstrate that cfg80211 can be used without problems and
> > that the kernel side implementation is complete enough to allow some
> > meaningful operations to be completed with cfg80211 (likely with WEXT
> > disabled, i.e., cfg80211 being feature complete for, say, WPA
> > authentication).
> 
> I fully agree with Jouni.

OK, where were you guys in London?  I don't recall any disagreement
there?

The WEXT compat code should be enough to drive the cfg80211 code.
And we would mark it CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (which I left out of the
patch) for now.  I suppose we could leave-out the nl80211 part to
avoid userland lock-in for now?

This also has the advantage of including the ieee80211_ptr in the
net_device structure, hopefully easing the task of packaging the rest
of the stack for external builds.

I suppose we could wait for at least one driver to be cfg80211-capable.
Would that satisfy everyone?

John
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31  1:37 [RFC] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:38 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:39   ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ John W. Linville
2007-01-31  1:41     ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-01-31 14:40     ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] wireless: move wext to net/wireless/ Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 19:00       ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31  2:46   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] cfg80211 and nl80211 Michael Wu
2007-01-31 17:37     ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:24       ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-01 10:18     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 17:45       ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 17:49         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:14           ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 18:14             ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:29               ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-05 18:29                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:13                 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-05 19:23               ` Michael Wu
2007-02-05 19:24                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 19:55                   ` Michael Wu
2007-02-09 16:14                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-05 18:16           ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31  2:48 ` [RFC] cfg80211 merge Jouni Malinen
2007-01-31 17:29   ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 18:32     ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-01-31 19:25       ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 20:07         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-31 20:44           ` John W. Linville
2007-01-31 21:06             ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-31 23:54               ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 13:07                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:04                   ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-01 14:11                     ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-02 18:18                       ` Tomas Winkler
2007-02-03 17:37                         ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 14:12                     ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-07  0:46 ` [RFC v2] " John W. Linville
2007-02-07  0:47   ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 John W. Linville
     [not found]     ` <20070207004832.GC23096@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07  0:49       ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] cfg80211: add wext-compatible client John W. Linville
2007-02-07  7:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:13           ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 18:38             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-08 18:50               ` John W. Linville
2007-02-08 19:41                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09 15:43                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:55               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 21:56                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-09  2:09                 ` Dan Williams
2007-02-07  7:35     ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wireless: add cfg80211 Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-08 13:12       ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-08 19:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-07 14:39   ` [RFC v2] cfg80211 merge John W. Linville

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