On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 19:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Multiple other groups of ioctls could be converted in similar patches, > until at the end you can completely remove ipw_wx_handlers and rely > entirely on cfg80211's wext compatibility. > > So far the theory - in practice nobody cared enough to start working on > any of these drivers, let alone actually has the hardware today.
So my suggestion to make ipw2200 no longer use cfg80211_wext_giwname() would actually be backwards. What's actually needed, in theory, is to use more of what's provided under CFG80211_WEXT (and, I guess, less of what's provided under WIRELESS_EXT). Did I get that right? Thanks, Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
