From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ed1-f41.google.com (mail-ed1-f41.google.com [209.85.208.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 189A772 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f41.google.com with SMTP id z19so13665425edi.9 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:02:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8MRyd2KdM0I5iiFpn55i/nDQSTgczndUfsjMuc21j3s=; b=IJjV4OpVGC6L3J3Y43uUEEjqcqcNf0XJyD9GN/hWfLYp+wqDJ+0kDuEmHd9uujufgb ekUhXyCDP63DWyWZ4aqupTDybAgUDFoCxMD2CkcJJaLsAOfxf13rRnPCxjaWsNjDR0Vv gN8DQxYXD/B/WPx0rW2TqnYgsuLz1W1pXn2snpzx+OS4AtvyAU4nnX6+p+ounPMeYUi7 SdBphbV5CasyeAJhs1AI6+k9rkdUMQSYP2k4HZDXNdtJXAzGrrcOGQnhpYlmpKWxU7Dn ULjU4f0Wn3iO0YETNNGMwFPsdrs5QBrwwz2QdQgc5sLFms0vtxdzxs9N3LX+dNTcSraQ XnNw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8MRyd2KdM0I5iiFpn55i/nDQSTgczndUfsjMuc21j3s=; b=r1Iv8353j5Ll+h1arc7B7FfWrPkLIJ7vPca3pbmDeayejO0qdwtU0VV4KeBOYDDUz1 8EyilDtbz0tN4wa4GfmfhKr3l9BQsa1Pj0IEH5O5lCiXoleUQEjtm6gXqoeiEWVPQF8c yvGOKEO1Oli8tgRl6hjzuln4yaKuyQOa0EydS4FuXDmY+P2eg2xEJ6N4awBFnkPRjliG vqWxw0xrPQGzuSINy19/WsjxhqPgqdmzFxurnKj3N/379hFwMSjSHobz2Ic6pRo4eAh/ Pv6+ThKknNMEvcYt21xSn99b06zzd25LE/Ko1jq9EfpSZJ8uaNyPb0UHgGlHfCMX+Pge zE9w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531DVKrqXoRyMHwiYt2+Ov553eMkpNyVRS06lhNY63VhpoeVMnkn JP33K30G3D3+BYXPRNxAISM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzkSPRLzls4oP6qjwAWyjflymQbFrLiAWUyLTSAf+OohcDHxj29Ah4srJRe/a9a7DZl+BvPLQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:1248:: with SMTP id l8mr14137115edw.94.1630144973480; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (host-79-22-100-164.retail.telecomitalia.it. [79.22.100.164]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i6sm4660621edt.28.2021.08.28.03.02.52 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, phil@philpotter.co.uk, Fabio Aiuto , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Provide a TODO file for this driver Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:02:48 +0200 Message-ID: <52588151.DjUuN5SxYT@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <20210827100813.18610-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Friday, August 27, 2021 5:00:16 PM CEST Larry Finger wrote: > On 8/27/21 5:08 AM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > +* Switch to use LIB80211. > > +* Switch to use MAC80211. > > You totally ignored my comment of yesterday!!!!! The driver will be converted to > use CFG80211 - not eirher of those you quote, unless you are planning to convert > to use mac80211. I am not. > > Larry Hi Larry, To the contrary, I didn't mean to ignore your comment! At least, not voluntarily. My confusion arises from the fact that, as far as 802.11 concerns, I know only that it is a family of standards that have to do with the lower two of the seven layers of the OSI protocol. I really don't know more than this: I cannot tell the difference between CFG/LIB/MAC80211. I simply thought that they are complementary (each to the others) and that I should have removed "This work is currently..." without mentioning the cfg80211 task to not have someone to duplicate your work in progress. Fabio Aiuto is right in guessing that I took those tasks from another TODO file. Finally, I want to remember to you that (ahead of v1) I had asked Maintainers to do or help with doing this list and I clearly wrote that I didn't know what those tasks are and whether or not they are required. I hope this message clarifies what I did and why. Thanks, Fabio