On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:48:19 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > My current thoughts: > - net/d80211_common.h can die sometime soon due to being replaced with > linux/nl80211.h (to be published today). > - net/d80211_mgmt.h needs cleaning up (I know Michael has been doing > some of that), and then should probably be renamed to > linux/ieee80211.h and be userland-visible, and contain a bunch of > other frame definitions as well. A bit like net/ieee80211.h now, > though more protocol-centric. > - net/ieee80211_radiotap.h should be userland-visible, and hence > linux/radiotap.h or such. > - net/d80211_shared.h probably has the same fate as
d80211_shared.h should probably be merged into d80211.h. > net/d80211_common.h, except for the _RATE_* thingies, but I'm not > sure why they should be userland-visible. > - net/d80211.h can stay there as-is, it's in-kernel only API. > > Or put another way, my suggestions: > - put all in-kernel API (for drivers) into net/d80211.h > - put stuff defined in the IEEE 802.11 specification series into > linux/ieee80211.h, make user-visible (headers-y in Kbuild!). This > serves just as a reference. It's not really necessary that the kernel > ships this, but we need it in the kernel and probably won't be > pulling it from some other source. Besides, I wouldn't know where > else to maintain it. > - radiotap simply moves to linux/ and gets to be userland-visible. Of > course, d80211 should actually start using it too ;) > - all the other userland stuff seems to be configuration related and > hence moves over to linux/nl80211.h > > Comments? I like this proposal. Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
